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CHRYSOPHANUS THOE— The bronze copper. 

 [The bronze copper (ScudUer); the large copper butterlly (Mnyiiard).] 



Pnlyommatus tlioe Bohd. MS.; Grny, Griff. (I8TS): Butt. oust. U. S., 2Kl-2.t2 (l.SSG);— 



Ciiv. nil. kinsJ., ins., ii, pi. 58, tigs. 4, 4 a-b MiiliU., Hep. III. Ins., x: 9") (18W);— Siiuld., 



(1S82);— Boisd.-LcC, Up. Am. sept. 12o-12G, Biitt., 128-129, tigs. 12, 117, 124(1S.S1);— Miiyn., 



pi. 38, tigs. 1-3 (1833);— tiuiJr., loon, ri^gue RiUt. N. Eugl., 40-41. pi. 5, lig.s. 61,51a (188G). 



anini., ins., 490, pi. 81, tigs. 4, 4 a (1842?);— Li/caena thoe Kirb., Syn. cat. Lep., 343 



JIorr..Syn. Lcp.N. Am..S4-<i5(18«2);— Saund., (18W). 



Can. cnt., i : .">' (18G9) ;— Gir., Trait6 d'eut., iii : Chri/sophanus hi/llus Bull., Cat. Fabr. Lcp,. 



237, pi. 84, tigs. 4, 4a-b (1885). 173 (1869). 



Chrysiiphanus thne Wcstw.-Hewits., Gen. Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lcp., pi. 25, 



diurn. Lcp., ii: 498(1852);— D'Urb.. Can. uat., lig. 9, iued. 



v: 240 (1860) ;— French, llep. III. ins., vii : 158 [Not Papilio liylhis Cram.] 



Thy sun-ray is bright 

 Ou the butterfly's wing. 



Eliza Cook. — Sprinij. 

 Those be rubies, fairy favours. 



SukK^sv^KKE.— Midsummer-Night's Dream. 



Imago (5 : !), 12). Head covered with velvety black hairs and scales; a moderately 

 narrow band of snow white scales and a few hairs runs around the eye, from the 

 front of the antennae nearly to the back of the same, broadening on the lower half of 

 the eye behind and connected together by a rather broad, white baud above the base 

 of the tongue; a line of white hairs starts at the inner edge of these bands where 

 they commence in front of the antennae, and passing on the inside of the latter run 

 straight backward to tlie top of the head, where they curve toward each other and 

 connect. Palpi with the basal and the greater part of the penultimate joint silvery 

 white; the upper surface of the apical half of the latter, together with the apical 

 third or fourth on both sides, abruptly changing to black, the white fringe on the 

 nnder surface often with a few black hairs near the apex ; terminal joint black, 

 excepting the under surface and the extreme tip which are white; occasionally the 

 base is narrowly annulatcd with white on the outside. Basal joint of antennae 

 clothed externally with white ; stalk black, annulated at the base of each joint with 

 white, most broadly upon the lower portion of the outside, where, on the basal live 

 or six joints, the white scales form a continuous line; club black, the basal joints 

 narrowly annulated at their base with white, the apic.il two or three joints orange, 

 and sometimes a portion of the under surface enlivened with an infuscated tinge of 

 the same. 



Thorax covered above with brownish fulvous hairs, brightest on the prothorax and 

 patagia; beneath pearly white, the legs the same, the basal half or more of the 

 smaller tarsal joints black above; the same joints fuscous beneath, laterally edged 

 with black; spines black; spurs white, tipped with light castaneous, the point darker; 

 claws reddish luteous ; pulviUus blackish fuscous, sometimes pale at tlie edge. 



Wings above: Fore icings; second superior subcostal nervule originating at two- 

 thirds the distance from the base of the first nervule to the apex of the cell in the 

 male; third superior nervule arising midway (<?) or less than midway (?) from the 

 tip of the cell to the apex of the wing. Colors either yellowish brown tinged 

 slightly with rusty red and having a faint violaceous reflection (^) ; or, rather pale 

 orange fulvous (?), the extreme base infuscated, the costal edge orange, the costal 

 border narrowly ( <? ) or broadly (?) bordered with blackish fuscous ; the outer bor- 

 der similarly bordered, either vaguely and narrowly to the distance of less than half 

 an interspace (J'), or, distinctly and broadly to the -width of an interspace and a half 

 (9) i the female has also the inner border margined with fnscous to just beyond the 



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