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PLATE CXLIIL 



PAPILIO ARGUS. 



Common Blue Butterfly, 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas knobbed at the end. Wings, when at reft^ ereQ. 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 lightifli brown, with black and red fpots. 



Papilio Argus : alis ecaudatis, pofticis fubtus limbo ferrugineoocellis 

 coeruleo argenteis. Fab. Syji. Ent. 525. 346. — 

 Linn. SyJi. Nat. Oi. 789. 232. 

 Fn. Sv. 1 074. 



Roef. Inf. 3. iab.'i']. fig. 3-- 5. 

 De Geer Inf. 4. /. 14. 15. 

 Wllh. Pap. 63. /. i.«. I. 

 Merian, Europ. tab. 153. 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. 29. fig. 3. 4. 



Though this beautiful Infed 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 fatisfadory. In that ftate it feems fcarcely 

 known. It is faid, by fome Colledlors, 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 



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