Caption:
Adonis blue butterfly, Polyommatus bellargus, male 1, female 2, brown argus, Polyommatus argus 3, azure blue, Polyommatus argiolus, male 4, female 5, Bedford blue, Polyommatus alsus 6, and mazarine blue, Cyaniris semiargus 7. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849.