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132<br />

MAZARINE BLUE.<br />

PLATE LVI.<br />

Polyommatus acis, STEPHENS. CUETIS. WOOD.<br />

« « DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.<br />

Papilio acis, EENST.<br />

Lycana acis, OCHSENHEIMEB.<br />

Nomiades acis, HUBNEE.<br />

Papilio argiolus, ESPEE. HUBNEE.<br />

semiargus, BOEKHAUSEN<br />

LEWIN. HAWOBTH. JEEMYN.<br />

cymo n.<br />

Lycana cymon, LEACH. SAMOUELLE.<br />

THIS, in conjunction with a former species, gives us an en­<br />

tomological "Acis and Galatea," who<br />

"Merry, harmless, free, and gay,<br />

Dance and sport the hours away;<br />

For them the zephyr blows, for them distils the dew,<br />

For them unfolds the rose, and flowers display their hue."<br />

"Where shall I seek the charming fair?<br />

Direct the way kind genius of the mountains;—<br />

Seeks she the groves?"<br />

It is rather the "pleasure of the plains" that will remark<br />

your search, and even there you must wander far and wide,<br />

for it is but at distant intervals that our present butterfly is to<br />

be met with.<br />

This very interesting and A-aluable insect used formerly to be<br />

taken in tolerable plenty by J. C. Dale, Esq., in his parish of<br />

Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, but now it is never seen there.<br />

It occurs also near Sarum, "Wiltshire, and in Sywell Wood, near<br />

Northampton, as the Rev. D. T. Knight, of Earl's Barton, informs<br />

me. Other localities given are Yorkshire and Norfolk, various<br />

parts of Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, and Worcestershire; also

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