LYCÆNA BÆTICA.
A commonly found blue butterfly, measuring from one to one and a half inches across the wings. It is rarely met with in England. The insect has a slender tail at the lower angle of each hind-wing, surmounted by two black dots. The margins of both wings have a slight black or dark brown band. The under-sides of both wings are of a grey-brown colour streaked and slightly spotted all over with faint white lines. On the lower angle of each hind-wing the two black spots on the upper side are replaced by two black ones dusted with silver, and surrounded by a bright orange ring which is broader at the top than at the bottom.
The antennæ are brown, slightly sprinkled with white. It is found on the rough fields (especially where the Lupine grows), barrancos, and hedge-rows, between March and August. Specimens netted early in the year are not so large as those found during May, and in the summer months.