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of these exceptions seem to be somewhat, at least, local in Kent or 
Sussex as at all common, viz., the pale blue, very pale, and very dark 
blue. 
And still left to be mentioned are the variations of borders of 
primaries, the white edge within the fringe, the black spots to hind- 
wings, with and without white edges, and the rare, though slight, 
markings similarly to uppenvings. These and the amount of black 
on nervures, on margin, in fringes, transversely, longitudinally, and the 
dusky to grey and almost black fringes. The latter matters, relating it 
to hylas, are all deserving, and needing, too, still a great amount 
of work. 
And, finally, on the undersides probably no other English “Blue” 
is more variable on underside, or more interesting as to amount of 
sexual variation, and resemblance by variation in colour, than 
bellaryus. 
Finally, to bring to a close these disjointed and rambling remarks, 
an apology is needed for their superficiality, which would have been 
somewhat mended but for their hurried concoction, owing to this 
being no specially prepared, no foreseen paper, which facts, I hope, will 
partially justify the offering of remarks, based, as you will understand, 
on such ignorance as leads one to consider such blues as corydon and 
aeyon to be allied much more closely than most of our “ blues.” 
This arises, of course, from aforesaid superficiality, which judges 
from the imagines with undersides showing (1) sometimes or often 
“blue studs” in marginal spots of secondaries; (2) tendency to 
white nervures on discs; (3) tendency for the groundcolour to run 
down nervures broadly to margin, spreading there in a triangle—and 
with uppersides in 3 with variation from a plain marginal line to 
wings, through a row of spots of varying sizes with and without 
varying amount of white to a broad homogeneous black band—the 
wing rays varying from blue ground colour through varying amount 
of black pigment to marked black wedges on upper wings; "the black 
discoidal spot so often present in both, even on hindwings*. 
It must be allowed, however, that these points of resemblance are 
fairly closely confined to these species. Nevertheless, parallel argu¬ 
ments probably exaggerate also the nearness of icarus and bellarijus 
in relationship, through the close parallelism of the 3 s (colour only, 
and not too unreservedly excepted), and, indeed, also, only less so of 
$ s, and including the underside marking, where the “ nervure- 
triangle ” seldom is well marked, and increased chiefly (though, even 
here, rarely) in 3 s by ground colour spreading between “ peacock- 
spots.” 
Based entirely on points like these, one fully recognises the 
superficiality of the argument; but this feeling "is, nevertheless, 
strong enough, in contrast with any appreciation of a close relation¬ 
ship between cot yd.oti and adonts, to lead to one's arrangements 
placing argus and corydon alongside, and adonis and icarus alongside, 
even though this should necessitate separating corydon and adonis 
from juxta-position. 
To these notes (and accidentally omitted from them when read) 
* [Also, as well-known now, both hybernate in ova; a much less “superficial” 
resemblance, perhaps. October 2nd, 1907.] 
