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LARGE BLUE.
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Underneath, the colour is dark grey; the black oblong spots
are replaced by rounded ones, with white orbits, and two rows
of smaller dots of a similar character follow the black line that
bounds the outside of the wing, which is succeeded by a white
fringe: the base of these wings is blue. The hind wings are
much spotted, and their base is blue considerably diffused;
two irregular rows of black spots, with white edges, run across
the middle part, and there is one single one near the base;
a double TOAV of black angular-shaped spots, based with whitish,
follows the outside marginal line: the fringe whitish.
The female is of a duller colour than the male, the spots
larger and more numerous, and the dark margin of the wings
broader.
This insect varies very much in the number and size of the
spots. Some specimens are almost wholly immaculate, and others
are gradually spotted 'seriatim' more and more till the wings
are strikingly marked.
The figures are from specimens in my OAvn cabinet.