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PLATE CLXXII. 



P A P I L I O V I R G A y R E ,E. 



Scarce Copper Butterfly. 

 Lepidoptera. 



Papilio ruralis. Lin. 

 Hefperia ruralis. FaL 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna terminated in a club. Wings, when at reftj erc(3. 

 Fly by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTEk 



AND 



S TNON TMS. 



Wings angulated, Upperfide of a fine bronze, or red copper 

 colour, with a black, margin. Underfide light brown, with feveral 

 white fpots, fome having a black fpeck near the middle. 



Papilio ruralis Virgaure^. Lin. Syjt. Nat. n. 253. p. 793. 

 edit. 12. n. 253. p. 2359.^ — Faun. Suec. 

 n. 1079. 



Papilio ruralis Virgaurea. Fab. Syji. Ent. n. 569. p. 126.— 

 Spec. I;if. 2. 569. p. 126. — Mant. Inf. 

 2. 721. p. 79. 



K Hefperin 



