CONSPECTUS OF BUTTERFLIES. 17 
Tue Swirr Correr (L. Hippotho’, SrepHeNns). Wings one 
inchfive-twelfthstoone-half; above tawny; beneathash-coloured, 
with numerous eye-like black spots. Local: very rare. Whit- 
tlesea-Mere, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent. 
Tue GoLpEN Rop (L. Virgauree, Leacn) appears the end of 
August. Wings one inch five-twelfths to one-half, of a shining 
and bright fiery copper colour; first pair, in the male, without 
spots; underneath yellowish, with ten or eleven very indistinct 
eye-like black spots; second pair above with six black spots 
attached to the black hinder margin; underneath with about 
twelve black spots crowned with white ; some few orange spots 
near the posterior angle, which is acute. 
Tn the female the first pair spotted above, with a marginal band 
of six somewhat confluent brown spots ; second pair brown, with 
the veins, and a large square spot on the dise, of a tawny colour, 
Caterpillar, dull green, with a yellow stripe on the back, and one 
of yellowish green on each side, head and legs black, feeds on 
the golden-rod and docks. Chrysalis brownish-yellow, with the 
wing-cases rust-coloured, Rare and local. Isle of Ely and 
Huntingdonshire. 
POLYOMMATUS (LATREILLE). 
Palpi longer than the head and nearly parallel, clothed with 
scales above, with three joints, the first short and curved, the 
second long, the third as long as the first and without hairs ; 
antenne yather short, with more than thirty joints, the clubbed 
tip abrupt and flattish, ending in a point placed sideways ; eyes 
in some downy, in others not; /egs alike in both sexes ; feet with 
very short cushions, beyond which are minute undivided claws ; 
wings entire ; upper wings triangular, and somewhat wedge- 
shaped ; wnder wings ovo-triangular, and scarcely, if at all, 
toothed at the posterior angle. 
Egg not known ; caterpillar short, oval, and flat ; chrysalis 
girt with silk, with the head roundish, 
Tue Azure Biur (Polyommatus Argiolus, SrerHENS) appears 
about the middle of May and end of August. Wings one inch 
one-sixth to one-half; above light blue, black at the tip; beneath 
light grey, with oblong dissimilar black spots ; female with more 
black at the tipofthe wing. Caterpillar, hairy, yellowish-green, 
with a vivid green line down the back, the head and legs black, 
feeds on the buckthorn and holly, C/ysalis smooth, brown 
and green, with a black line down the back. Near London, 
Norfolk, Suffolk, Hants, Kent, and Devonshire. 
Tue Beprorp Biur (P. Alsus, Srepmens) appears the end 
of May and beginning of July. Wings five-sixths to one inch 
one-twelfth ; above brown, with a blue gloss; beneath ash-co-~ 
loured, with a single streak of eye-like spots. Uncommon and 
ya South of England, Coombe Wood, Surrey, Norfolk, Suffolk, 
levon, 
Tar Mazarin Buve (P. Acis, STEPHENS) appears towards 
the end of May and beginning of July, Wings one inch one- 
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