CLASS V. INSECTA. 
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Sp- 3. Hipp. Algeria (speckled wood, or wood Argus), 
Inhabits the borders of woods and fields. 
Sp. 9. Hipp. Scmele (grayling, or rock undenving). 
Inhabits heaths, commons, and rocky wastes. 
Stirps 2. — Larva oval, depressed : pupa short, contracted, obtuse at 
both extremities : tarsi with very small nails. 
Genus 321. THECLA. Fair., Leach. Polyommatus. Latr. 
Feet in both sexes all alike : nails scarcely produced beyond the pul- 
villi, which are large: antenna gradually clubbed; the club elon- 
gate, cylindric oval : hinder wings tailed. 
* Antenna gradually clavated. 
®P. 1. The. Jietula (brown hair streak.) 
Inhabits the borders of woods. 
®P- 2. The. Pnmi (black hair streak). 
Inhabits the borders of woods. 
®P- 3. The. Qucrcus (purple hair streak). 
Inhabits oak woods, flying on the highest branches of the trees. 
** Antenna abruptly clavated. 
kp. 4. The. Rubi (green underside, or hair streak). 
Inhabits the skirts of woods. 
Genus 322. LYCjENA. Fabr., Leach. Polyommatus. Latr. 
Fegs alike in both sexes: nails projecting beyond the pulvilli, which 
are small : antenna with an abru pt club, somewhat ovate, compressed, 
or spoon-shaped. 
* Hinder zeings more or less tailed. 
Sp. l. Lyc. dispar (large copper). 
I“apilio Hypothoc. Donovan. 
Inhabits the fens of Cambridgeshire, and has been observed near 
Aberdeen in Scotland. 
®P- 2. Lyc. Chryseis (purple-edged copper), 
nhabits Europe : in Britain it is extremely rare. 
!fP-3. Lyc. Virgaurea (scarce copper). 
Inhabits Europe : very local in Britain. It is found in some parts of 
Huntingdonshire. 
?P' 4- Lyc. Phlteas (small copper). 
^habits woods and heaths. 
** Hinder zeings with the posterior margin entire. 
P- 5. Lyc. Cory don (chalk-hill blue), 
inhabits chalky districts. 
®P- 6. Lyc. Adonis (Clifden blue), 
hhabits chalky districts. 
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