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SILVER-STUDDED BLUE. 



PLATE LXI. 



Polyommatus Argus, 



■' Alcippe, 



" maritimus, 



Pdpilio Argus, 



" /das, 



" Argj'rognomon, 



' ' Leodorus, 



" Argiadis, 

 Hesperia Argus, 



" Acrenri, 



Lycmna Argus, 

 Lycmides A rgus, 



Stephens. Duncan. 

 Westwood. Wood. 

 KiRBY, MS., (var.) 

 Haworth, MS., {var.) 

 LiNN^us. Lewin. Haworth. 

 LiNN^us, {/bmak.) 



BORKHAUSEN, (iHir ?) 



EsPER, {var.) 



EsPER, (var.) 



Fabricius. 



Fabricius, (var ?) 



Leach. Och.senheimki<. Huhnkr. 



HUBNER. 



This fly is not uncommon near Sarum, Wiltshire ; also in Sywell 

 Wood, near Northampton. I have taken it in Devonshire, at Pinhay 

 ClifF, near Lyme Regis. It is also found in Coombe Wood and 

 Darenth Wood, Kentj and Wells, in Somersetshire j at Wood Hay 

 Common and Bisterne, Hampshire; on Colesliill Heath, Warwickshire j 

 Parley Heath, Dorsetshire; Langwith, near York; Brighton, in Sussex; 

 Looe, in Cornwall; Holt, in Norfolk; and Ripley Green, Surrey; as 

 likewise in various other localities in the south of England. 



It is a very pretty and interesting, though rather plain species; and 

 pleasant it is to watch it as it wanders about to "bid good-morrow to 

 the flowers," in the height of summer, when you arc glad to lie 

 down on some grassy bank and gaze upon the plants or the insects 

 which surround you, listening the while to the murmur of the 

 tinkling rill, or it may be the gentle rippling of the tide over the 

 pebbled beach, every sight and every sound full of present and in- 

 expressible enjoyment, and recalling perhaps also other times and 

 other scenes and passages connected with them, which, alas ! cannot be 



