126 LARGE BLUE. 



centre; the outer edges are dark coloured; the fringe of the wings is 

 white. The hind wings are of the like deep blue colour, bordered 

 with blackish brown. 



Underneath, the colour is dark grey; the black oblong spots are 

 replaced by rounded ones, with white orbits, and two rows of smaller 

 dots of a similar character follow the black line that bounds the outside 

 of the wing, which is succeeded by a white fringe: the base of these 

 wings is blue. The hind wings are much spotted, and their base is 

 blue considerably diffused; two irregular rows of black spots, with 

 white edges, run across the middle part, and there is one single one 

 near the base; a double row of black angular. shaped spots, based 

 with whitish, follows the outside marginal line : the fringe whitish. 



The female is of a duller colour than the male, the spots larger 

 and more numerous, and the dark margin of the wings broader. 



This insect varies very much in the number and size of the spots. 

 Some specimens are almost wholly immaculate, and others are gradually 

 spotted 'seriatim' more and more till the wings are strikingly marked. 



The figures are from specimens in my own cabinet. 



