SMALL COPPER— BROWN ARGUS 



comb pattern, and soon changes to greyish. The green 

 larva has prominent segments, but a minute head, the 

 line down the back being brownish-olive. It feeds on 

 dock and sorrel. The pale brown pupa has black dots 

 on the body, as well as streaks of the same colour, and a 

 dark line divides the central parts. The imago has 

 black spots on its copper-coloured forewings, and 

 the dark hind wings are pleasingly relieved with a fringe 

 of copper, freckled with black. The under sides are less 

 showy, although the under surface of the forewings 

 has a bright patch of colour, with black spots. 



Brown Argus.— (Lycana astrarche.) Several members 

 of this beautiful series of insects are of rare appearance, 

 but there are three or four familiar kinds worthy of note. 

 The Brown Argus is the first of these, and it is common in 

 the Southern Counties, the principality of Wales, and 

 elsewhere. On a chalk soil, where the sun-loving rock 

 rose flourishes, search may be made for it. but it also 

 frequents one of the cranesbills. May sees it upon the 

 wing, and the whitish egg may be found on the upper side 

 of a leaf. The green body of the larva has a pinkish 

 line down the centre, and another light one along the 

 sides. The pohshed black head is worthy of note. 

 The yellowish-green of the pupa is ornamented with 

 pinkish edges and bands, and may be sought for, sus- 

 pended by a silken girdle, on leaves of the favourite food- 

 plant. The dark chocolate colour of the male is richly 

 decorated with reddish-orange spots on both the fore and 

 hind wings, and there is not a great deal of difference in 

 the upper colouration of the two sexes. The under 



surface is in striking contrast to that which predominates 



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