84 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



dots, and obtuse at both ends, and is attached by a belt 

 round the middle. 



The food of the larva varies in different parts of its range ; 

 it will feed on the common pea, the field pea, and lupine. 



This species is common throughout Southern Europe, the 

 \vhole of Africa, and southern and eastern Asia, as far as China 

 and Japan ; and also throughout the eastern islands to 

 Australia and the Sandwich Islands. But in Europe it is one of 

 those Mediterranean species which have not crossed the Alps, 

 but are gradually extending their range northwards along the 

 west coast of Europe. In Germany the only recorded locality 

 (and that somewhat doubtful) is Aix-la-Chapelle ; but the 



Lampides batica. Upper side of female. 



Butterfly has long been known as at least an occasional visitant 

 to the Channel Islands. In 1859, the last of a series of 

 unusually fine and hot summers, to which many entomolo- 

 gists doubtless still look back with regret, this Butterfly re- 

 appeared in the Channel Islands, where it had not been seen 

 for twenty years ; and one day Mr. Henry Cooke, of Brighton, 

 where I was then living, told me that Mr. McArthur had 

 captured " a new Theda " on the Downs. I knew that there 

 were tailed Blues, and that it was not a likely locality for a 

 Theda, and was not surprised when the insect was identified. 

 The few specimens known to have occurred in England have 

 all been met with in the southern counties during August. 

 There is also a May brood on the continent. Many species, 



