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CLIFDEN BLUE.
HARTFORD BLUE.
PLATE -LXII.
Polyommatus adonis, STEPHENS. CURTIS. WOOD.
" " DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.
Papilio adonis, OCHSENHEIMEB. LEACH.
" " SAMOUELLE.
" ceronus, HUBNEE.
" bellargus, ESPEE. VILLABS. MULLEE.
" argus, DONOVAN.
Sesperia adonis, FABBICIUS.
THE unfeeling and heartless manner in which Mr. Charles
Dickens relates the gratuitous destruction, by the robbers, of poor
Grimaldi's " Dartford Blues," in revenge, as it would appear,
for the rest of the intended plunder having been timely removed;
must for ever lower him in the estimation of every high-
souled—entomologist. True indeed it is that he uses language
not altogether inappropriate, in treating of the lamentable loss—
language which, did it express the feelings of his heart, might
be accepted as displaying some degree of commiseration for so
sad a calamity; but the acute perception of the entomologist
will at once tell him that the sympathy is but feigned, the
pity but a mockery, the pretended commiseration a mere delusion,
betokening an utter want of feeling on a subject Avhich ought
instinctively to call forth the deepest emotion. 'Tis easy to
see through the hollow speciousness: 'hie nigri est succus
loliginis;' which translated into plain English is—Air. Dickens
I am quite sure, is no entomologist.
This most lovely insect, AA-hose beauty is imported by its