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PLATE CXLIIL 



PAPILIO ARGUS. 



Common Blue Butterfly. 



Lepidoptera, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae knobbed at the end. Wings, when at reft, erect. Fly 

 by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Male upper fide fine blue with white margins, Female dark 

 brown, with a patch of blue on the middle of each wing. Underfide 

 of both fexes lightifh brown, with black and red fpots, 



Papilio Argus : alls ecaudatis, pofticis fubtus limbo ferrugineo ocellis 

 cceruleo argenteis. Fab. Syji. Ent. 525. 346.-— 

 Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 789. 232. 

 Fn. Sv. 1074. 



Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 37. fig. 3—5. 

 jDe Geer Inf. 4. /. 14. 15. 

 Wilk. Pap. 63. t. 1. a. 1. 

 Me r 1 an. Eur op. tab. 153. 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. 29. fig, 3. 4. 



Though this beautiful Infecl is very common in fome places in 

 the Butterfly ftate, we have never met with it's larva, nor with any 

 account of it that appeared fatisfa&ory. In that ftate it feems fcarcdy 

 known. It is faid, by fome Collectors, to be a plain green Cater- 

 pillar, with very few hairs, bulky, and broadeft acrofs the middle. 

 It certainly feeds very low among the thickeft grafs, or perhaps like 



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