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Hist.," 5th ser. iii., p. 223 (1879); Moore, " Lep. Ceyl.," i., p. 93 (1881); Butl., 

 " Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.," p. 31 (1882); Dist., " fthop. Mai.," p. 230, pi. xx., 

 fig. i (1884); Kirby, "Handbook," etc., ii., p. 82, pi. xlv., figs. 1-3 (1896). 

 Baetica, Meig., "Eur. Schmett.," ii., p. 48, pi. Iii., fig. 4 (1830); ZelL, " Isis," 

 p. 129 (1840); Hch.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," i., p. 130 (1843) ; Heyd., " Lep. Eur. 

 Cat. Meth.," p. 15(1851) ; West, and Hew., "Gen. Diurn. Lep.," ii., p. 490 

 (1852) ; Bamb., " Cat. Lep. And.," p. 43 (1858) ; Staud., "Cat.," 1st ed., p. 4 

 (1861) ; Trim., " Bhop. Afr. Austr.," ii., p. 236 (1866) ; Berce, "Faun. Franc," 

 i., p. 131 (-1868); Mill., "Cat. Lep. Alp. -Mar.," p. 102 (1875); Frey, "Lep. 

 Schw.," p. 14 (1880); Elwes, " Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.," p. 887 (1881); Kane, 

 "Eur. Butts.," p. 34 (1885) ; Trim., " Sth. Afr. Butts.," ii., p. 58 (1887) ; Pryer, 

 "Bhop. Nihon.," p. 17, pi. iv., fig. 22 (1888); Meyr., " Handb.," p. 347 (1895). 



Original description. — Papilio Plebeius alis caudatis fusco- 

 caerulescentibus ; subtus cinerascentibus albido undulatis ; angulo aDi 

 ocellis duobus. Habitat in Barbaria. Magnitudo Artji. Alas supra 

 nigricantes rore viridi caerulescente obductaB. Subtus omnes glauco- 

 cinerascentes, strigis albidis undulatae. Angulus ani cauda setacea 

 nigra albo margine. Ocelli ad angulum ani, supra duo, pupillae nigra ; 

 interiore didyma (praeter exteriores caecas). Subtus ocellis etiam duobus 

 antice fulvis, postice argentatis (Linne, Syst. Nat., xiith ed., p. 789). 



Imago. — lymm.-37mm. The upperside of the male is of a some- 

 what dull purple tint, narrowly fuscous along the costa and the outer 

 margin ; the hind wings delicately tailed, the black tail with white tip, 

 and two pale-margined black spots towards the anal angle, one on 

 either side of the base of the tail. The female fuscous, more or less 

 sprinkled with brighter metallic violet, or bright blue scales towards 

 the base of all the wings, and the median area of the forewings ; the 

 hindwings as in the male, but with an ill-defined marginal row of pale- 

 edged spots, following the two well-marked anal ones ; a transverse 

 band of indistinct, pale spots between this and the centre of wing. 

 The fringes of all the wings have the inner half grey, the outer white, 

 but, towards the tail of the hindwings the fringes are white-tipped, 

 and white at the base, the central portion being grey. The underside 

 of all the wings brownish-fawn, transversely crossed with delicate 

 white pencillings, and with two black spots near the anal angle of the 

 hindwings, one on either side of the base of the tail, edged above with 

 orange, and partly filled in below with bright metallic green. 



Sexual dimorphism. — There is considerable difference in the colora- 

 tion of the sexes, the males being more or less uniform in tint, iridescent 

 purplish rather than violaceous, narrowly fuscous along the costa and 

 outer margin ; the hindwings finely tailed, and with two black spots 

 at the anal angle, one on each side of the base of the tail. The female 

 is fuscous sprinkled with very bright violaceous, hyacinthine or blue 

 scales over the base or centre of all the wings, extending to the inner 

 margin ; the hindmarginal series of pale-edged spots on the hind wing, 

 of which the two black anal spots are the most highly developed, more 

 or less conspicuous ; faint indications of the corresponding hind- 

 marginal band on the forewings ; a transverse series of pale spots 

 between the hindmarginal bands and centre of hindwings. The male 

 is provided with remarkably long and highly specialised androconial 

 scales, entirely different from those of most other "blues" figured by 

 Sidebofcham (Mem. Phil. Lit. Soc. Manch., 3rd ser., iii., pi. i, hand iii). Of 

 the scaling of this species, Pierce writes (in lift.): " L. boeticush-^s three 

 layers of scales — (1) the pigmented and transparent scales; (2) pro- 

 jecting through these, in the male, the androconial scales, a thick mass 



