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grey. Fore wings with an elongated discoidal spot and a curved 
central row. Hind wings slightly blue at the base, with a narrow 
discoidal, two basal spots, and a wavy central row. All the spots 
are about equal in size, and, in addition to them, all the wings have 
a double hind marginal row of dark brown spots enclosing a faint 
light band. PI. XXXII., 3. 
Times of Appearance. — July and August. 
Habitat. ^ — Central and Southern Europe, namely, Germany, 
the South-East of Holland, Erance, Piedmont, Switzerland, the 
South of Sweden, Central and South-Eastern Russia, Hungary and 
Bulgaria. It probably also occurs in Western and Central Asia, 
and is taken in the Altai ; it is a local species, occurring on moor- 
land meadows. Any accounts of its capture in Britain are no 
doubt entirely erroneous. 
Larva.— Unknown. 
47. L. Euphemus, Htib. 257-9; 0. i. 2, 9 ; Boisd. Ic. 13, 4-8. — 
Diomedes, Rott. Nat. vi. p. 26 (sed Biomedes, L., Syst. 
Nat. 1758, al. erat. Pap.) 
Expands 1‘25 to 1’35 in. Fringes of all the wings white. 
Wings blue in both sexes, with a dark brownish black hind marginal 
border, broader in the female than in the male ; all the wings have 
a narrow black discoidal spot and a central row of round black 
spots. Under side : — Brownish grey, with the spots arranged as on 
the upper side, but in addition to these all the wings have a hind 
marginal row of black spots, and the hind wings, which are very 
slightly blue at the base, have two basal spots. PI. XXXII., 4. 
Time of Appearance. — July. 
Habitat. — The greater part of Central Europe (but not Great 
Britain), probably also Asia Minor, Armenia, and the Caucasus. 
It is a local species, frequenting marshy places. 
Larva. — Not as yet described by any author. 
48. L. Arion, Limi. Syst. Nat. x. 483 ; Fab. Syst. 283 ; Esp. 20, 
2 ; Hiib. 254 - 6 ; 0. i. 2, 4. 
Expands 1*25 to 1‘50 in. Eringes of all the wings white. The 
wings are deep blue in both sexes, with a brown hind marginal 
