LYC/ENA. 117 



hind-wings are light brown, often greenish or yellowish, with 

 an orange stripe at the anal angle. Across the wings runs an 

 irregular white band, generally broken into two large spots, 

 and nearer the base are several small black spots. 



The larva is pubescent, and of a dull green, with a yellow 

 dorsal line and pale green streaks on the sides. It feeds on 

 Golden Rod, Rinncx, &:c., in June and September, the Butter- 

 fly being double-brooded (on the Continent), and appearing 

 there from May to August. 



II. THE LARGE COPPER. LYC.ENA DISPAR. 

 {Plate L. Figs. i(? ; 2, 3?.) 



Papilio hippothoe (nee Linn.), Lewin, Ins. Brit. i. pi. 40 (1795) ; 

 Donovan, Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. vii. p. 3, pi. 217 (1798); 

 Hiibner, Europ. Schmett. i. figs. 966-968 (1841 ?). 



Papilio dispar, Havvorth, Lepid. Brit. p. 40, no. 51 (1803). 



Lyccena dispar, Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. pi. 12 (1824); Stephens, 

 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 81 (1828); Kirby, Eur. Butter- 

 flies and Moths, p. 55 (1879). 



Poly onwiatus dispar, Boisd. Icones, i. pi. 10, figs. 1-3(1833); 

 Lang, Butterflies Eur. p. 90, pi. 19, fig. 4 (1881). 



Polyommatus hippothoe, Newman, Brit. Butterflies, p. 114 



(1881). 



Chrysopha7ius dispar, Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. p. 56, pi. 9, 

 figs. I, la, b (1892). 



Some difference of opinion exists as to whether the Large 

 Copper is a distinct species, or only a local insular form of 

 the following. It was probably known to English entomolo- 

 gists for some time before the end of the last century, but 

 Wilkes does not mention it, writing in 1 745 ; and the first 

 notice by an English writer is by Lewin, in 1795, who snys 

 that his specimens were taken " on a moorish piece of ground 



