112 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S 



Oeitiis PoLYOMMATua, /;/. Ill, Jig. 14. 



Antenna! ratlier short, with a rather abrupt largish com- 

 pressed knoh, terminating in a lateral point ; joints more 

 than thirty. 



Palpi lonf;er than the head, scaly above, hairy below, last 

 joint without hairs. 



Forelegs perfect. 



Claws very short, simple ; foot cushions very short or obsolete. 



livings intire ; primary triangular and nearly wedge-shB))ed ; 

 secondary between ovate and triangular. 



Egg, Caterpillar, and Chrysalis, as in Lycana. 



POLYOMMATUS ARION, LARGE BLUE. 



Lewin pi. 37,/. 1,2. Donovan v. 6, p. 184. Duncan, pi. 32, fig. 1. 



Butterfly. Wings above, brown with a blue disk. Primary 

 with five longitudinal black discoidal bars, with two or 

 three black dots above them. Underneath brownish ash- 

 coloured, with eight ocelUited spots, two in the centre, and 

 six or seven arranged in an imdulated band between them 

 and the posterior margin, all with a large black pupil, and 

 white iris ; at the posterior margin are two rows of black 

 .sjiots and crescents, with a very faint or obsolete iris. 

 Secondary underneath, brownish ash coloured, blue-green at 

 the base witli eleven ocellated spots arranged in two bands, 

 the first near the base consisting of three, the second in the 

 middle angnlated and interrupted, consisting of eight ; be- 

 tween the bands is a transverse discoidal crescent, and at 

 the margin two rows of suboccUated black spots, as in the 

 pi-imary wings. I'cmale diflers fi-om the male in having 

 above larger, blacker, and more nmncrous spots, and the 



