226 COMMON COPPER. 



procured from the county of Kent. In France it is 

 not very scarce, and frequents meadows and marshy 

 places. 



COMMON COPPER. 



Lyccena Phlceas. 



PLATE XXX. Fig. 3. 



Pap. Phlseas, Linn Leivin, pi. 41 — Donovan, urn. pi. 466. 



— The Copper Butterfly, Harris — Lycaena Phlaeas, Jer- 

 myn, Stephens. 



Upper wings fulgid copper colour, the posterior 

 margin black, and the disk of each wing bearing 

 from 8 to 10 black spots, two of them arranged lon- 

 gitudinally towards the base, the rest transversely 

 in a zig-zag band, some of them confluent. The 

 hinder wings are brownish-black, with a coppery 

 band posteriorly, dotted with black on its outer 

 edge. The under side of the primary wings is 

 spotted in a similar manner to the upper side, but 

 the colour is paler, and the hinder margin greyish, 

 with three black crescents internally : the secondary 

 wings drab coloured beneath, with many indistinct- 

 ly marked dots, and a posterior tawny band. 



This is the smallest species of the genus, the ex- 

 pansion of the wings seldom exceeding 12 or 3 4 

 lines, and differs from the others in both sexes be- 



