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LITTLE BLUE. 



BEDFORD lil.Ui;. 

 PLATE LX. 



Polyommatus Alsiis, Stephens. Curtis. Duncax. 



" " Wood. Westwood. 



Papilio Alsus, Gmelin. Lewix. Donovan. 



minimus, Esper. Schaffer. Villars. 



" pseuJo/us, Borkhausen. 



Nomiades Alsus, HuRNER. 



Hcspcria Alsus, Fabricius. 



I HAVE taken this diminutive butterfly in tolerable plenty at i'inney 

 ClifF, Devonshire; near Lyme Regis, and also near C'harmouth, Dorset- 

 shire; likewise near Sittingbourne, in Kent. In Yorkshire, it has been 

 met with at ^Vadsworth and Brodsworth, near Doncaster, Langton Wold, 

 Londesborough, by myself, and in other parts. Other localities for it are 

 the neighbourhood of Newmarket and Cherry Hiuton, Cambridgeshire; 

 near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltbhire, in isolated places near 

 woods, as J. W. Lukis, Esq. has informed me, as likewise near Ames- 

 bury; and Hainanlt Forest, Esse.v. Also South Creek, Norfolk; 

 Brandon Warren, Suffolk; Brighton, in Sussex; Weston-super-Mare, in 

 Somersetshire; Ranmore Common, near Dorking, Surrey; Dover, Birch 

 Wood, and Darenth Wood, Kent; near Andover, Winchester, and the 

 Isle of Wight, in Hampshire; Dailington, in Durham; between Wood- 

 stock and Enstone, Oxfordshire; near Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire; 

 and near Hertford. In most of the northern counties of Scotland, and 

 at Ardrahan, in the county of Galway, in Ireland, as A. G. More, 

 Esq., has written me word. In Wales, in Gloddaeth Wood near 

 Llandudno. 



The perfect insect appears at the end of May or beginning of June, 

 and keeps out for a considerable time. It is often seen on the sides 

 of disused chalk-pits, and on grass-grown cliffs, where, a veritable 



