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HOLLY BLUE. 



AZUKE BLUE. 

 PLATE LIX. 



Polyommatus Argiohcs, Latreille. Stephens. Curtis. 



" " Wood. Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Argw/us, Linn^us. Hawokth. Donovan. 



" " Lewin. 



" All's, HUBNER. 



" Cleobis, EsPER. 



" Argus viarginatus, De Geer. 



Agriades Argiolus, Hubner. 



Lycana Argiolus, Ochsenheimer. I.each. 



" " Samouelle. 



This plain but neat species is to be found, as its name imports, in 

 places where the holly abounds. Unlike the other Blues, it flies near 

 the tops of these trees, hovering about them and settling on them very 

 much after the manner of the Hairstreaks. 



In Yorkshire it is not uncommon. I have known it in former years 

 in very considerable plenty at Fairtield, near Broomsgrove, Worcester- 

 shire; other localities for it are Castle Eden Dene, Durham; Dartford, 

 Kent; Ripley, Surrey; Epping Forest, Essex; Newcastle, Northumber- 

 land; Hammersmith, near London; Allesley, near Birmingham, and 

 other places, in Warwickshire; the Isle of Wight, and in Hampshire; 

 and also in various places in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Devonshire. Brighton 

 and Lewes, in Sussex; Blean Wood, near Canterbury; Looc, in 

 Cornwall; Weston-super-Mare, in Somersetshire. In Wales, near 

 Llandudno. 



It ajipears to be double-brooded, being taken so early as the middle 

 of April, as also in May, June, July, and the end of .August — the 

 charming summertide, when you cannot but, with the butterflies you 

 seek, "love the merry merry sunshine," and wish that it were always 

 summer . 



