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MAZARINE BLUE butterfly. 
female is dark brown above, with the base of the 
wings faintly tinged with blue, and the fringe grey- 
ish. The under side is ash-grey, inclining to blue 
at the base of the wings, the anterior pair of the lat- 
ter with an oblong spot, cinctured with white, near 
the middle, and a band of ocelli behind it, usually 
most numerous in the male. On the disk of the 
posterior wings there is also a streak of black, two 
or three spots anteriorly towards the base, and a very 
irregular band of ocelli, having a black pupil and 
white iris, behind the middle. 
Rather a scarce species, and usually found to fre- 
quent chalky districts. It has occurred in Norfolk, 
Dorset, and Yorkshire; also in Surrey, Cambridge, 
&c. 
