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PLATE CLXXXIV. 



PAPILIO ARION. 



Mazarine blue Butterfly. 

 Lepidqptera* 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae clavated : wings when at reft erea. Fly by day, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



AND 



SYNONYMS* 



Above brown, difk of the wings azure, with black fpots : beneath 

 grey, with a number of fmall eyes. 



Papilio Arion : alis fupra fufcus : difco coeruleo; maculis atris 



fubtus canis : punftis ocellaribus.- Lynn. Syji. Nat. %* 



789. 230. Fn. Sv. 1075. 

 Hefperia Arion. Fab. Ent. Syjl, 3. 293. 118. 



Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 45. fig. 3. 4. 



Schaff. Icon. tab. 98. fig. 5.6 . 



Efp.pap. I. tab. 20. fig. 2. 



Papilio Arion is a very fcarce In feci: in this country ; and it does 

 not appear to be much more common in any other part of Europe. 

 The authors quoted above have given figures or defcriptions of it, but 

 are entirely ignorant of its larva, or pupa; and Fabricius, who has 

 fele&ed the obfervations of all the preceding authors who have de- 

 fcribed it, fays only, Habitat in Europa Pratis* 



C 2 . Mr. 



