Piogem 
Ep A TB. CXEME 
PAP LLEIG. ARGUS. 
Common Brive BurrerFty. 
LEPIDOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz knobbed at the end. Wings, when at reft, ere&t. Fly 
by day. ‘ | 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Male upper fide fine blue with white margins. Female dark 
brown, with a patch of blue on the middle of each wing. Underfide 
of both fexes lightifh brown, with black and red fpots. 
Papilio Argus : alis ecaudatis, pofticis fubtus limbo ferrugineo ocellis 
coeruleo argenteis. Fab. Sy. Ent. 525. 346.— 
Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 789+ 232. 
Fn. Su. 1074. 
Rae. Inf. 3. tab. 37. fig. 3—5- 
De Geer Inf. aif Ta 1S. 
Wilk. Pap. 63. t. 1. a 1. 
Merian. Europ. tab. 153. 
Schaff. Icon. tab. 29. figs 3. 4- 
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Though this beautiful Infe@ is very common in fome places in 
the Butterfly ftate, we,have never met with it’s larva, nor with any 
account of it that appeared fatisfatory. In that ftate it feems fcarcely 
known. It is faid, by fome Colleétors, to be a plain green Cater- 
pillar, with very few hairs, bulky, and broadeft acrofs the middle. 
It certainly feeds very low among the thickeft grafs, or perhaps like 
QO 4 forme 
