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The Lycaenids are rather small butterflies - they include the beautiful Blues, the Hairstreaks and Coppers. Unfortunately many Lycaenid butterflies are becoming rare as their habitats are destroyed and two species have already become extinct in the British Isles.
Excerpt from The Rhopalocera of Java, Pieridae For about 28 years I lived in the Malay archipelago; nine months in Sumatra, five years in the south-western peninsula of Celebes and the rest of the time in Java: from January 1863 till August of the same year, from May 1864 till May 1869, from May 1879 till July 1888 and from January 1889 till June 1894. Most of the time that I passed in Java I lived at Batavia, but during the last two years and a half of my stay in that island also partly at Buitenzorg, both places situated in West-Java; some time also at Semarang, at Touban and at Bojonegoro in Central-Java, as well as at Kediri in East-Java, while I also visited for a shorter time other par...