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PLATE CCCCXXVL 



PAPILIO BLANDINA. 



SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERFLY. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae terminated in a club : wings ere6t when at reft : fly by 



<iay. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings indented, fulcous, with an ocellar rufous band : posterior 

 pair beneath fuicous, with a cinereous band. 



Papilio Blandina: alis dentatis fufcis : fafcia rufa ocellata 

 pofticis fubtus fufcis : fafcia cinerea. I'abr, 

 Ent. Syjl. T.3. p. I. 236. n. 736. 



This very rare fpecies of Papilio has been recently difcovered to 

 be a native of the Britilh ides. About three or four fpecimens of it 

 were taken in the ifle of Arran by Major Walker, to wbofe 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 infe£t is by no means unknown to the con- 

 tinental 



