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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Thecla : with the wings tailed; above greenish with golden spangles, and with 

 the front margin and tip dark; beneath black, with several rows of small 

 yellowish dots. Expanse of the wings, 1$ inch. 



Hesperia (E.) Theocritus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 289. Enc. MSth. 9. 653 (Poly- 

 onimatus Th.) } 



POLYOMMATTTS PARRHASIUS. 



Plate XLV. fig. 5. 



Species. Polyoiihatus Pakrhasius : alis caudatis ; supra casruleis margine fusco, ( <$ ), aut 

 fuscis, ( J ) ; posticis ante marginem striga punctorum nigrorum ocellatorum ; 

 omnibus subtus cinereis, pone medium albo undatis ; posticis punctis tribus 

 baseos atris, albo cinctis, apiceque punctis quatuor aureis, tertio puncto atro. 

 Expans. alar, f — 1 uno. 



Polyohmatus : with the wings tailed ; above blue with a brown margin in the 

 male, brown in the female, the posterior with a submarginal row of black ocel- 

 lated spots ; the under side of all the wings cinereous, with white waves beyond 

 the middle, the posterior with three black spots, edged with white towards the 

 base, and with four golden marginal spots, the third having a black dot in the 

 middle. Expanse of the wings, f to 1 inch. 

 Stx. Hesperia (P.) Parrhasius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 289. Enc. MM. 9. 657, (Poly- 



ommatus P.) Horsfield Lep. Jew. 1 . p. 86 1 

 Habitat. "In India," (Fabricius, Enc. Me'th.) Java, (Horsfield). 



As in our little English " blues," (as the species of Polyommatus are called by 

 collectors,) there are many species so very closely allied together, that it is very 

 difficult to settle their specific distinctions, so there appear to be several Indian 

 species so nearly related to Pol. Parrhasius, that it is only by precisely following the 

 particular description of that species given by Fabricius, (and which I have embodied 

 in the above definition,) that we can avoid confusion. The species was known to 

 Fabricius, through the drawings of Mr. Jones, and the collection of Mr. Drury, to 

 both of which Donovan had access, so that we may adopt his figures as the real re- 

 presentatives of the Fabrician insect. It is on these grounds that I have attached a 

 mark of doubt to the reference to Dr. Horsfield's Lepidoptera Javanica. Donovan 

 has, however, fallen into the strange mistake of considering the larger individual 

 with blue wings as the female, and the smaller brown one as the male, whereas, as 

 in the common English " blues," the opposite is the case. 



