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130<br />
SMALL COPPER.<br />
COMMON COPPER. COMMON SMALL COPPER.<br />
PLATE LV.<br />
Lycana phlaas, FABBICIUS. OCHSENHEIMEE. LEACH.<br />
" " STEPHENS. CURTIS. DUNCAN. WOOD.<br />
Papilio phlaas, LINN.EUS. HAWOBTH. LEWIN.<br />
" " DONOVAN. HAEBIS.<br />
Chrysophanus phlaas, HUBNEE. WESTWOOD.<br />
Polyommatus phlaas, BOISDUVAL.<br />
THIS butterfly occurs throughout Europe, and in Asia, and<br />
also, or a closely allied species, in America.<br />
It is a common insect with us, and generally distributed<br />
throughout the country. It is an exceedingly elegant object on<br />
the wing, as it flits from flower to flower, its showy colour,<br />
though it is so small, attracting the eye. It seems to be fond<br />
of attacking and fighting Avith any of its fellows that approaches,<br />
but the difference may be more apparent than real—a mere<br />
"passage of arms" essayed in the exuberance of the happiness<br />
of the ephemeral little creature.<br />
There are tAvo or three broods in the year, and they appear<br />
early in April, in June, and August.<br />
The caterpillar feeds on the sorrel, (Oxalis acctosella.)<br />
The fore wings, which expand from a little over an inch<br />
to a little over one and a quarter, are of a resplendent coppercolour<br />
with from eight to ten black spots of different sizes<br />
and shapes on their central part; of these, the two or three<br />
nearest to the base of the wing are placed transv rlely Th<br />
ront edge of the Aving is nanwly d ^ ^ e<br />
the outer edge broadly so; the fringe is buff. The hind wiZs<br />
aie dark blackish broAvn, with a copper bar at the lower sid & e
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