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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



formam V mentiente illis intermedia nigris, in serie marginem interiorem pelente ocellisque 

 paralleld digestis. (Exp. alar. 1 una 7 lin.) 



Polyommatus Nedymond. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 634. 



Wings above, in the female, pure brown, the anterior immaculate, the hinder with a broad oblong- 

 posterior band of a pale azure tint, varying according to the aspect to pale sea-green with a 

 silvery reflexion, bearing at the exterior edge three oblong black marks, of which the interior 

 one has the deepest tint, the whole being bordered externally by a white marginal line, separated 

 from the fringe of the same colour by an intermediate black thread which is flexuose in the anal 

 region ; the anal appendage bears a lunule covered with silvery sea-green resplendent dots : 

 underneath the basal dimidial portion of the surface is satin-white, the apical portion brown with 

 a slight violet shade ; the latter is further subdivided, in the anterior wings, by an intermediate 

 abbreviated undulated white striga, the posterior half being paler and the whole of the inner 

 apical angle gray ; in the hinder wings the marginal portion is white and marked with four obso- 

 lete gray spots, fainter as they recede from the outer apical angle ; the anal region is white and 

 bears two very large, strongly pronounced, intensely black circular ocellate spots, with an inter- 

 mediate round group of greenish silvery irrorations ; the exterior ocellus bears internally a broad 

 orange lunule spreading in a radiant manner towards the disk ; the second ocellus occupies the anal 

 appendage itself and is entirely surrounded by a narrow annidar iris of a pale green silvery tint ; 

 parallel with the ocelli three delicate black marks are arranged in a series, the intermediate one 

 forming an angular mark resembling the letter V, the lateral ones constituting two short oblique 

 striolse; a very faint oblique bifid streak stretches from the inner ocellus towards the anal 

 angle. The body is brown above and white underneath ; the antennce are brown with a ferru- 

 ginous tip and marked underneath with delicate bands alternately white and brown ; the tails 

 are white very delicately fringed at the sides, and marked longitudinally with a distinct black 

 medial line. 



This highly beautiful species, originally described in the Encyclopedie, has not, as yet, to my knowledge 

 been figured in any work. I have already stated my reasons for applying the name of Nedymond, by 

 which it is designated in the Encyclopedie, to our 28th species (see above, p. 98) ; and I have, in the 

 preceding description, directed the attention of the reader to the markings on the under-surface, which 

 discriminate this species, by printing them in italics. Besides these particulars which relate only to colour 

 and painting, our insect differs likewise in form and belongs to a different section of this subgenus. The anal 

 appendage is rounded and the wings are provided with two tails. 



42. Amblypodia Longinus. Aim supra maris cyanece argenteo-micantes, nitore saturato variabili, 

 limbis apiceque largissimo anticarum nigris ; fceminse sordide albce basi tantum azureo irrorata, 

 anticce limbis fuscis, posticce margine anteriore discoque fusco-nebidosis, seriebus insuper duabus 

 punctorum, margini apicali parallelis, slrigdque extimd nigris, macidis duabus area analis 

 oblongis insignioribus : subtus sericeo-grisece serie communi posticd ex arcubus minutis nigris in 

 anticis continud in posticis subflexuosd, notd insigniori angulari in regione anali plaga- 

 ocellulis intermedia oppositd ; anticce insuper striga obsoletd margini paralleld ex maculis 

 oblongis canis albido limbatis, posticce striga conformi gemind et deinde in regione anali ocellis 

 duobus atris altera exteriore minore orbiculari in plaga maxima fulva intus subquadrata nidu- 



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