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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Thecla : with the wings tailed ; above greenish with golden spangles, and with the 
front margin and tip dark ; beneath black, with several rows of small yellowish 
dots. Expanse of the wings, 1^ inch. 
Syn. Hesperia (R.) Theocritus, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 289. Enc. Meth. 9. 653, (Poly- 
ommatus Th.) 
POLYOMMATUS PARRHASIUS. 
Plate XLV. fig. 5. 
Species. Polyommatus Parrhasius : alis caudatis ; supra cseruleis margine fusco, ($), aut 
fuscis, ( ^ ) ; posticis ante marginem striga punctorum nigrorum ocellatorum ; 
omnibus subtus cinereis, pone medium albo undatis ; posticis punctis tribus baseos 
atris, albo cinctis, apiceque punctis quatuor aureis, tertio puncto atro. Expans, 
alar. | — 1 unc. 
Polyommatus : with the wings tailed ; above blue with a brown margin in tne male, 
brown in the female, the posterior with a submarginal row of black ocellated spots ; 
the under side of all the wings cinereous, with white waves beyond the middle, the 
posterior with three black spots, edged with white towards the base, and with four 
golden marginal spots, the third having a black dot in the middle. Expanse of 
the wings, f to 1 inch. 
Syn. Hesperia (R.) Parrhasius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 289. Enc. Meth. 9. 657, (Poly- 
ommatus P.) Horsjield Lep. Jav. 1. p. 86? 
Habitat. “ In India,” (Fabricius, Enc. Meth.) Java, (Horsjield). 
As in our little English “ blues/’ (as the species of Polyommatus are called by 
collectors,) there are many species so very closely allied together, that it is very difficult 
to settle their specific distinctions, so there appear to be several Indian species so 
nearly related to Pol. Parrhasius, that it is only by precisely following the particular 
description of that species given by Fabricius, (and which I have embodied in the 
above definition,) that we can avoid confusion. The species was known to Fabricius, 
through the drawings of Mr. Jones, and the collection of Mr. Drury, to both of which 
Donovan had access, so that we may adopt his figures as the real representatives of the 
Fabrician insect. It is on these grounds that I have attached a mark of doubt to the 
reference to Dr. Horsfield’s Lepidoptera Javanica. Donovan has, however, fallen into 
the strange mistake of considering the larger individual with blue wings as the female, 
and the smaller brown one as the male, whereas, as in the common English “ blues,” 
the opposite is the case. 
