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CLIFDEN BLUE. 



DARTFORD BLUE. 



PLATE LXIII. 



Polyommatus Adonis, Stephens. Curtis. Wood. 



" " Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Adonis, Ochsenheimer. Leach. 



" " Samouelle. 



" Ceromis, Hubner. 



" Bellargtis, Esper. V'illars. 



" Argus, Donovan. 



Hesperia Adonis, Fabricius. 



The unfeeling and heartless manner in which Mr. Charles Dickens 

 relates the gratuitous destruction, by the robbers, of poor Grimaldi's 

 "Dartford Blues," in revenge, as it would appear, for the rest of the 

 intended plunder having been timely removed, must for ever lower 

 him in the estimation of every high-souled — entomologist. True 

 indeed it is that he uses language not altogether inappropriate, in 

 treating of the loss — language which, did it express the feelings 

 of his heart, might be accepted a>: displaying some degree of com- 

 miseration for so lamentable a calamity; but the acute perception of the 

 entomologist will at once tell him that the sympathy is but feigned, 

 the pity but a mockery, the pretended commiseration a mere delusion, 

 betokening an utter want of feeling on a subject which ought instinc- 

 tively to call forth the deepest emotion. 'T is easy to see through the 

 hollow speciousness: 'hie nigri est succus loliginis;' which translated 

 into plain English is — Mr. Dickens, I am quite sure, is no entomologist. 



This most lovely insect, whose beauty is imported by its specific 

 name, is abundant in some seasons in the vicinity of Croydon, Surrey, 

 as Mr. C. Miller informs me : it also occurs in some parts of Suffolk, 

 and other southern counties, as Brighton, in Sussex, Weston-super- 



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