S-1141001_COMPLETO.pdf

Ilipparchia blandina,
Papilio blandina,
Epiyea philometa,
Oreina blandina,
•>;j
SCOTCH ARGUS.
PLATE XXTIT.
OCHSENHEIMER. STEPHENS.
CCRTIS. DUNCAN.
FABGICIUS. SOWEGBY.
DONOVAN.
HUBNER.
WESTWOOD.
THE British Butterflies are to be sought in various localities
—the "Highways and Byways" of the country. Few of the
latter will be found to exceed in the graces of quiet retirement
the district of Yorkshire, presently mentioned, as one of the
"habitats" of the present species.
This insect, formerly esteemed so rare, occurs in great pro­
fusion in the neighbourhood of Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshire, as
I have been informed by Mrs. Hugh E. Strickland, and her
sister, Miss Jardine. It is extensively distributed likewise in
other parts of that county; also in the Isle of Arran; near
Minto, in Roxburghshire, and about Edinburgh, and doubtless
in most of the southern counties of Scotland. In Yorkshire a
few have been captured at the foot of Whernside, in Craven;
and Mr. ALUs tells me that it is to be found in plenty near
Grassington, in Wharfedale, also in Craven, on most of the
hills and mountains of which district I fully expect that it will
be discovered. It exists in profusion in one or two places not
far from Newcastle, in Northumberland, and likewise in Castle
Eden Dene, in the county of Durham, a sweet spot, well worth
visiting for its own sake.
The Scotch Argus varies in the expanse of its wings from
an uv-h. and a half to two inches. The upper side is of a