226 COMMON COPPER. 



procured from the county of Kent. In France it i 

 not very scarce, and frequents meadows and marshy 

 places. 



COMMON COPPER. 



Lyccena Phlceas. 

 PLATE XXX. FIG. 3. 



Pap. Phlaeas, Linn Lewin^ pi. 41 Donovan, xiii. pi. 466. 



The Copper Butterfly, Harris. Lycsena 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 14 

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



