226 
COMMON COPPER. 
procured from the county of Kent. In France it is 
not very scarce, and frequents meadows and marshy 
places. 
COMMON COPPER. 
Lycasna Phlceas. 
PLATE XXX. Fig. 3. 
Pap. Phlaeas , Linn Lewin, pi. 41 — Donovan, -x iii. pi. 466. 
. — The Copper Butterfly, Harris. — Lycsena Phlseas, Jer. 
myn, Stephens. 
Upper wings fulgid copper colour, the posterior 
margin black, and the disk of each wing bearing 
from 8 to 10 black spots, two of them arranged lon- 
gitudinally towards the base, the rest transversely 
in a zig-zag band, some of them confluent. The 
hinder wings are brownish-black, with a coppery 
band posteriorly, dotted with black on its outer 
edge. The under side of the primary wings is 
spotted in a similar manner to the upper side, but 
the colour is paler, and the hinder margin greyish, 
with three black crescenu internally: the secondary 
wings drab coloured beneath, with many indistinct- 
ly marked dots, and a posterior tawny band. 
This is the smallest species of the genus, the ex- 
pansion of the wings seldom exceeding 12 or 14 
lines, and differs from the others in both sexes be- 
