papular 23icttanar at ftminatett Mature. 539 



coast. The male is of a most lovely azure ] in number ; between which and the outer 



or silvery blue, varying in lustre ; now 

 taking a tinge of green, and now of lilac, 

 according to the light in which it is presented 

 to the eye ; the hinder margin of all the 

 wings marked with a slender black line, 



P. ADONIS FBMALB. 



the cilia white, interrupted by brown : be- 

 neath, the anterior wings are whitish, with 

 spots distinctly oeellated ; the margin with 

 the fulvous ocelli of a deep hue, and the 

 ground colour deep. The female is of a 

 deep brown, with a black discoidal spot, the 



disc frequently bluish ; the hinder margin 

 of the posterior wings with a slightly oeel- 

 lated fulvous streak ; and the colour beneath 

 much darker than the male, and the ocelli 

 more distinct. Caterpillar green, with dorsal 

 rows of fulvous spots : it feeds on clover. 

 Chrysalis green, or brown. 



POLYOMMATUS ALEXIS ; Or ALEXIS BlTT- 



TERFLY. Tliis, the commonest of our blue 

 butterflies, is seen disporting itself by the 

 sides of grassy lanes, in meadows, and in 

 marshy places, wherever we go. Two broods 

 make their appearance, the first in May, the 

 last in August. Male, above of a bright 

 lilac blue, with the costa of the anterior 



ALBX18.) 



(POLYOMM 



wings white, and a slender marginal black 

 line to all the wings ; the fringe usually 

 white : the anterior wings have two ocelli 

 placed transversely towards the base of the 

 wing, then an ovate central spot with a 

 transverse black streak, followed by a regu- 

 larly curved transverse scries of ocelli, seven 



margin are a row of dusky lunules. edged 

 with fulvous, and a series of dusky spots on 

 a whitish ground ; the extreme margin is 



black : the posterior wings are usually bluish 

 at the base, with four ocelli placed obliquely 

 towards the inner margin ; the disc has a 

 triangular white spot, with black centre, 

 behind which is a waved series of eight or 

 nine ocelli, externally bordered with a ful- 

 vous patch, the extreme edge of which is 

 black; and a white blotch connects the 



fulvous band with the waved series of ocelli. 

 Female, above brown, with the disc more or 

 less blue : beneath, all the wings are deep 

 ash-colour or drab, with all the ocelli very 

 distinct and large. Caterpillar bright e 'reen, 

 slightly hairy, with a dark dorsal line, and 

 triangular yellow spots : it feeds upon the 

 wild strawberry, and grasses. Chrysalis 

 dark brown. 



POLYPI : POLYPI ART A. The animals 

 belonging to this extensive and remarkable 

 class possess an organization so low in the 

 scale of being (by which we mean, that the 

 distinctive characters of animal life are so 

 slightly developed), that there is very con- 

 siderable difficulty in distinguishing many 

 of them from the cryptogamic families of 

 the vegetable kingdom ; and, accordingly, 

 we find in the works of the older botanists 

 that the Zoophytes, generally, were arranged 

 with the Sea-weeds and Mosses; nor was 

 any idea entertained of their possessing a 

 different character. That such should have 

 been the case can excite the wonder of no 

 person who merely regards the apparent 

 structure of these plant-like animals. They 

 see that a bulb is formed, which shoots up 



