_Upper Side._ The wings are brown, tinged with blue. The cilia white,
posterior wings with two tails like hairs, of a chocolate colour; the
tips being white.
_Under Side._ The anterior wings are green next the anterior edge, but
along the interior one are of a greyish flesh colour. A narrow silver
line begins at the anterior edge, about a third from the tips, and
crossing both superior and inferior wings, meets near the extremity of
the abdomen, running across the inferior wings in a very irregular,
indented manner, and having its upper side verged with chocolate. The
{4}posterior wings, above this line, are of a deep pea-green; but below
it soften into a flesh colour, which continues along the external edge,
from the upper to the anal corner; whence rises a jagged, indented,
chocolate line, that runs across the wing, parallel with the silver line,
whereon are several dark blue spots, shining like polished steel.
Nearly allied to the common British species, Thecla Rubi.