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lighting in funny fituations among the hedges on the road fides, or 
the moft frequented foot paths, where it cannot eafily efcape the at- 
tention of the moft cafual obferver. 
The general colour on the upper furface is fulvous richly gloffed 
with a metallic luftre, and finely relieved with a great number of black 
fpots, which contribute to render its appearance when expofed to the — 
vigorous rays of funfhine equally brithant and diverfified. Its larva 
and pupa feem to be unknown; in the winged ftate it appears very 
common from April till the end of Augutft. 
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