94 PLATE CLXXII. 



Hefperia ruralis Virgaurea: alls fubangulatis fulvis: margine atro, 



fubtus pundis, nigris albifque. 

 lah. Ent. Syjl. 4. 173. p. 309, 



Le Bronze, Geoffr. Inf. 2. 35. p. 65. 



Papil, d'Europ. tab. 44. n. 92. 



EJper eur. Schmetf. i. Th. tab. 19. fig. 2. 



Borkhaujen eur. Sihmett. i. 77;. i. p. 141, 



^/ />. 269. 

 Syji. Ferz. d. W. Schmett. i. /. 80. 



L'Argus fatine. ^n?/?. 



Der Goldrathenfalter. Der Feverpapilion. P^«z. i^^ttn. Inf. 



Germ, 



A fpecimen of this very fuperb and rare butterfly has been taken 

 at Cambridge. It has always had a place in the cabinets of Englifh 

 colle6lors of confequence ; but we cannot learn by whom it was 

 firft difcovered in this country. Papilia Virgaurese and Papilio Hip- 

 pothoe, has been frequently confounded with each other ; but on a 

 comparifon, a material difference will be difcovered. 



Harris has made one error, which it is of importance to the Englifh 

 colled or to corred ; he fays, " PapUio Virgaurecey copper, feed's on 

 grafs, found in June and Auguft in meadows, is fhining copper, 

 fpotted with black." From this it appears he could mean no other 

 than the common copper butterfly, which is found in June and Au- 

 guft in meadows, PaplUo Phlaas ; for though the fcarce copper 

 butterfly was probably found in his time, it muft have been very 



rare j 



