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LARGE BLUE. 



PLATE LVUI. 



Polyommatus Arion, Latreille. Stephens. Curtis. 



" " Wood. Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Arion, LinNjEU.s. Haworth. Lewin'. 



" " Donovan. Hubner. 



LyccBna Arion, Ochsenheimer. Leach. 



Nomiades Arion, HuBNER. 



Localities for this insect are Charmouth, Dorset, where my brother, 

 Beverley R. Morris, Esq. once took one, which I saw immediately 

 afterwards; the Cliffs near Dover, Kent; the Downs near Marlborough, 

 Wiltshire; and those near (ilastonbury and Laugport, Somersetshire, 

 where Mr. Quekett has taken it in some profusion ; al>o near Cheltenham ; 

 the Mouse's Pasture, near Bedford, where Dr. Abbot first took it, and 

 Mr. Dale again in 1819; Broomham, in Bedfordshire; near "V\'inchester, 

 ill Hampshire; Brington, in Rutlandshire; Chatteris, in Cambridgeshire; 

 Brighton, in Sussex; also near Gloucester; and Wigsworth and Barnwell 

 Wold, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, where, in company with my 

 hospitable host, the Rev. William Bree, Curate of I'olebrook in that 

 neighbourhood, who had in previous years discovered and taken it there 

 in tolerable plenty, I took the considerable number of eleven specimens 

 on the 19th. and 20th. of July, 1852. He only once took one in the 

 neighbourhood of Ashton A\'old, a few miles distant, though there are 

 several other fields of exactly a similar appearance to those in which 

 it occurs at the former place. Bolt Head in Devonshire, is another 

 locality for it. 



It appears in June and July. 



The Large Blue expands in width from a little over an inch and a 

 hali to nearly one and tliree quarters. The fore wings are of a deep 

 blue colour, with a large cluster of oblong black spots near their 



