232 MAZARINE BLUE BUTTERFLY. 



female is dark brown above, with the base of the 

 wings faintly tinged with blue, and the fringe grey- 

 ish. The under side is ash-grey, inclining to blue 

 at the base of the wings, the anterior pair of the lat- 

 ter with an oblong spot, cinctured with white, near 

 the middle, and a band of ocelli behind it, usually 

 most numerous in the male. On the disk of the 

 posterior wings there is also a streak of black, two 

 or three spots anteriorly towards the base, and a very 

 irregular band of ocelli, having a black pupil and 

 white iris, behind the middle. 



Rather a scarce species, and usually found to fre- 

 quent chalky districts. It has occurred in Norfolk, 

 Dorset, and Yorkshire ; also in Surrey, Cambridge, 

 &c. 



