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PLATE CCCCXXVL 



PAPILIO BLANDINA. 



SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERFLY. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae terminated in a club : wings erec\ when at reft : fly by 

 day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings indented, fufcous, with an ocellar rufous band : pofterior 

 pair beneath fufcous, with a cinereous band. 



Papilio Blandina: alis dentatis fufcis : fafcia rufa ocellata 

 pofticis fubtus fufcis : fafcia cinerea. Fhbr. 

 Ent. St/JI. T. 3. p. I. 236. n. 736. 



This very rare fpecies of Papilio has been recently difcovered to 

 be a native of the Briiiih ifles. About three or four fpeciwens of it 

 Were taken in the ifle of Arran by Major Walker, to whofe polite- 

 nefs we are indebted for the individual example at this time in our 

 Mufeum. Another is preferved in the colleftion of our friend 

 A. M'Leay, Efq. and thofe, we have reafon to apprehend, are the 

 only fpecimens at prefent in any of the London Cabinets, 



Though but lately introduced to our attention as a native of Great 

 Britain, this interefting infeft is by no means unknown to the con- 

 tinental 



