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Habitat. — Meadows, wood-sides, commons, &:c., througdiout 
Central and Southern Europe. (It is absent from Great Britain, 
Andalusia, and Sicily.) It also occurs in Asia Minor, Armenia, 
and the Altai. 
The Laeva, which is light green, with lighter spots and 
reddish brown short hairs or bristles, feeds on Rumex acetosa. 
There are three or four broods in the year. 
VARIETIES. 
a. Subalpina, Spr. Stett. E. Zeit. 1851, p. 339. The male is 
without any orange bands above, and the under side of both sexes 
is entirely without any red or orange tinge. 
Habitat. — Switzerland. 
h. Hypoxanthe, Kirby, Man. Eur. Butt. p. 91. Mr. Kirby 
describes under this name two specimens from the Polish Ukraine. 
They seem to differ from typical specimens of Dorilis in being 
somewhat larger and more strongly marked, and with a much more 
decided orange tinge beneath. Though these specimens do not 
appear to be specifically distinct from P. Dorilis, I think the name 
Hijpoxanthe may justly stand as that of a variety, and not merely 
as a synonym. 
11. P. Phlaeas, Linn. F. S. 285; Esp. 22, 1; Hub. 362-3. 
Expands 1 to 1'25 in. Fore wings shining copper, with a 
hind-marginal band of dark brown ; there are two square black 
spots in the discoidal cell, and an irregular row parallel to the hind 
margin. The fore wings of the male are darker than those of the 
female, and the black spots are larger. Hind wings rather strongly 
emarginate near the anal angle, dark brown, with a faintly black 
linear discoidal spot ; parallel to the hind margin is a broad copper 
band, spotted with black, and above this there often appears the 
traces of a row of blue spots, generally four in number. Under 
side ; — Fore wings bright orange ; hind margins brownish grey ; 
the wings are spotted with black, as above. Hind wings brownish 
grey, with a few indistinct darker spots, and a faint reddish orange 
hind-marginal band. PI. XXI., 4. 
