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PLATE CLXXIII. 



Hefperia ruralis Virgaurea : alis fubangulatis fulvis : margine atro, 



fubtus punctis, nigris albifque. 

 Fab. Ent. Syjl. 4. 113. p. 309 



Le Bronze. Geoff r. Inf. 2. 35. p, 65. 



Pupil. d'Europ. tab. 44. n. 92. 



EJper ear. Schmett. 1. Th. tab. \0.fig. 2. 

 Borkhaufen eur. Schmett. 1. Th. I. p. 141. eU 



p. 269. 

 Syjl. Verz. d. W. Schmett. 1. p. 80. 



L'Argus fatine. lErnff. 



Der Goldrathen falter. Der Feverpapilion. Panz. Faun. Inf. Germ. 



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

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

 collectors of confequence ; but we cannot leran by whom it was 

 firfl difcovered in this country. Papilia Virgaureae and Papilio Hip- 

 pothoe, have 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 

 collector to correct ; he fays, " Papilio Virgaurea, copper, feeds on 

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

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

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

 Auguft in meadows, Papilio Phlaas ; for though the fcarce copper 

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



rare; 



