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MAZARINE BLUE. 



PLATE LVII. 



Polyommatus Acis, Stephens. Curtis. Wood. 



" " Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Acis, Ernst. 



Lycana Acis, Ochsenheimer. 



Nomiades Acis, Hubner. 



Papilio Argiohis, Esper. Hubner. 



" semiargus, BoRKHAUSEN. 



" Cymon, Lewin. Haworth. Jermyn. 



Lyccena Cymnn, Leach. Samouelle. 



This, in conjunction with a former species, gives us an entomological 

 "Acis and Galatea," who 



" Merry, harmless, free, and gay, 

 Dance and sport the hours away; 



For them the zephr blows, for them distils the dew. 

 For them unfolds the rose, and flow'rs display their hue." 



"Where shall I seek the charming fair? 

 Direct the way kind genius of the mountains; — 

 Seeks she the groves?" 



It is rather the "pleasure of the plains" that will reward your search, 

 and even there you must wander far and wide, for it is but at distant 

 intervals both of time and space that our present butterfly is to be 

 met with. 



This very interesting and valuable insect used formerly to be taken 

 in tolerable plenty by J. C. Dale, Esq., in his parish of Glanville's 

 Wootton, Dorsetshire, but now it is never seen there. It occurs also 

 near Sarum, Wiltshire, and in Sywell Wood, near Northampton, as 

 the llcv. D. T. Knight, of Earl's Barton, informs me. Other localities 

 given are Lincolnshire, as at Epworth near Bawtry, and Norfolk, Cherry 

 Hinton, and various parts of Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, and Worces- 



