CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS. 



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than any other of the Lycaenids. In Sikkim, not only do many 

 species actually swarm, but the number of distinct species occurring 

 there is very great. In the plains of India proper, C. puspa is the 

 only species commonly met with, but, wherever hills occur, there will 

 several species be found." Scudder says (Butts. New England, ii., 

 p. 921) : " This is a widely distributed genus, occurring in both 

 hemispheres, from the southern limits of the Arctic region to 30° N. 

 lat., and on the Asiatic continent even further south. The highest 

 point it reaches in either hemisphere is about 63° N. lat. In the 

 western world it occurs throughout the United States (except in 

 the Florida peninsula, and perhaps the immediate borders of the Gulf 

 of Mexico), and beyond almost to the treeless region of the north." 

 It also extends south into Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. 



Celastrina argiolus, Linne. 

 Synonymy.— Species : Argiolus, Linn., " Sys. Nat.," xth ed., i., p. 483 (1758); 

 "Faun. Suec," 2nd ed., i., p. 284 (1761); Poda, " Mus. Graec," p. 76 (1761); 

 [Scop., "Ent. Cam.," L, p. 177 (1763);] Mull., "Faun. Frid.," p. 36 (1764); 

 Hufn., "Berl. Mag.," ii., p. 72 (1766); Schaff., "Icones," i., p. 163, pi. 211, figs. 

 1-2, pi. 185, figs. 1-2 (1766); Linne, " Syst. Nat.," xiith ed., ii., p. 790 (1767); De 

 Geer, "Memoires," ii., p. 182 (1771); Fab., "Syst. Ent.," i., p. 525 (1775); 

 Schiff., "Schmett. Wien.," 1st ed., p. 184 (1775); Harris, " Eng. Lep.," p. 2 

 (1775); Kott., " Naturf.," vi., p. 7 (1775); Miill., " Zool. Dan. Prod.," p. 115 

 (1776); Goze, " De Geer's Mem." transl.. p. 64 (1778); Bergs., "Nomen.," 

 ii., p. 74, pi. xlv., figs. 5-8 (1778); hi., pi. liv., figs. 5-6 (1779) ; Fab., "Spec. 

 Ins.," ii., p. 123 (1781); Betz., "Gen. Sp. Ins.," i., p. 30 (1763); Bork., 

 "Sys. Beseh.," i., pp. 173, 282 (1788); ii., p. 234 (1789); De Vill., "Car. 

 Linn. Ent. Fn. Suec," ii., p. 67 (1789); Lang, "Verz.," p. 57 (1789); 

 Eossi, "Faun. Etrusc," ii., p. 156 (1790); Brahm, "Ins. Kal.," p. 327 (1791); 

 Schwarz, " Eaup.-Kal.," i., pp. 178, 344, 492 (1791); Scriba, "Journal," 

 p. 210 (1791); Bork., " Bbein. Mag.," i., p. 285 (1793); Don., "Brit. Ins.," xiv., 

 p. 39, pi. 481, figs. 1-3 (1795); Lewin, "Ins. Gt. Brit.," i., p. 76, pi. xxxvi., figs. 

 4-6 (1795) ; 111., " Schmett. Wien.," 2nd ed., p. 266 (1801); Schrank, "Fauna 

 Boica," ii., p. 212 (1801); Haw., "Lep. Brit.," p. 47 (1803), etc. Cleobis, Sulz., 

 " Abgek. Gesch. der Ins.," p. 146, pi. xviii., figs. 13-14 (1776); Esp., "Schmett. 

 Eur.," i., pt. 1, p. 360, pi. xl. (supp. xvi.), fig. 3 (1777); p. 27, pi. liv. (cont. iv.), figs. 

 4a-b (1778); Fuess., "Mag.," i., pt. 2, p. 209 (1778); Goze, "Ent. Beit.," p. 60 

 (1780); Schneid., "Syst. Besch.," p. 268 (1789). Thersanon, Bergs., " Norn.," 

 hi., p. 4, pi. xlix., figs. 5-6 (1779); Bkh., "Naturg.," etc., i., p. 174 (1788). 

 Argyphontes, Bergs., "Norn.," hi., p. 15, pi. lviii., figs. 5-6 (1779). Argalus, 

 Bergs., "Norn.," hi., p. 18, pi. lx., figs. 4-5 (1779). Acis, Fab., "Mant. Ins.," 

 p. 73 (1787); "Ent. Syst.," hi., pt. i., p. 295 (1793); Hiibn., "Eur. Schmett.," 

 text p. 46(1805]; pi. lvii., figs. 272-274 (1799); 111., " 111. Mag.," hi., p. 183 (1803). 

 Argalaus, Bkh., "Naturg.," etc.,i.,p. 174 (1788). Cimon var., Lewin, "Ins. Gt. 

 Brit.," pi. xxxviii., figs. 6, 7 (1795). Par-Yipuncta, Fuchs, " Stett. Ent. Zeitg.," 

 p. 116 (1880); Riihl, "Pal. Gross-Schmett.," p. 293 (1895); Tutt, "Brit. Butts.," 

 p. 189 (1896); Staud., "Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 90 (1901) ; Wheeler, "Butts. Switz.," 

 p. 45 (1903). [All other references mentioned under the generic synonymy (anted, 

 pp. 378-9) are referable to argiolus or, if American, pseudargiolus. For other 

 details see the "synonymy" relating to the various varieties and aberrations, 

 described posted, pp. 398 et seq.] 



Original description. — P.P. alis ecaudatis; supra casruleis margine 

 nigris ; subtus cserulescentibus punctis nigris dispersis. Kaj, "Ins.," 

 132, no. 6. Habitat in Europa. Prascedenti (argus) similis, sed minor; 

 subtus puncta pauciora dissita absque ocellis nigris (Linne, Sys. Nat., 

 xth ed., p. 483). [Descr. — Statura duorurn praecedentiuni. Alas omnes 

 supra caaruleaa limbo nigra ; omnes subtus cano caerulescentes absque 

 ocellis. Primores postice ordine e punctis 5, oblongiusculis, nigris, 

 minutis ; secundaria? punctis nigris, parvis, decern, sparsis. [Habitat 

 in Ericetis.] (Linne, Faun. Suec, 2nd ed., p. 284).] 



