The TOU M HATUBAUST: 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Patit 91. JULY, 1887. Vol. 8. 



ANOSIA PLEXIPPUS. 



(Danais Archippus.) 

 By JOHN E. ROBSON. 



TT7HILST we have been deploring the fact that our British butterflies 

 ' ^ were decreasing in number of species, two new ones have unexpect- 

 edly been added to our list. Lyccena argiades has occurred in Dorsetshire, 

 under circumstances rendering it probable that it is an old inhabitant, 

 hitherto overlooked in consequence of its close resemblance, when on the 

 wing, to the Common Blue, Ly carta alexh. This, however, cannot yet be 

 decided, as the very few specimens hitherto taken may only have been " blown 

 over," like the examples of Lyccena loetica that have occurred. 



The large and handsome species repr< sented above, is an undoubted immi- 

 grant, and as the time is approaching w aen collectors should be on the look 



