I20 LLOYDS xXATURAL HISTORY. 



Corean form of the insect (var. Z. aurata, Leech) ap;:ears to be 

 quite as near to true Z. dispar (though somewhat smaller) as 

 to Z. rutila. 



The Large Copper measures an inch and three-quarters, or 

 two inches across the wings. The male is of a brilliant 

 coppery-red, with a narrow black border, and well-marked long 

 discoidal spots, within which is a black spot in the cell on 

 the fore-wings. The female is of a more orange colour above, 

 with one, and often two, black spots in the cell of the fore- 

 wings, within the discoidal spot ; beyond the cell is a row of 

 large black spots. The hind-wings are blackish, with the 

 nervures more or less orange, and a broad coppery sub- 

 marginal band, indented by black spots resting upon the 

 border. On the under side the fore-wings are of a paler 

 copper, with the hind-margin greyish, intersected by a black 

 line, and preceded by a row of black spots between the 

 nervures. All the other spots on the wings are ringed with 

 white ; there are two in the cell, and a third at its extremity, 

 and a curved row of large spots beyond. The hind-wings are 

 blue, with four or five basal eyes, an ocellated discoidal 

 streak, a row of large spots beyond, and a broad orange sub- 

 marginal band, bordered on both sides with a row of black 

 spots, not ocellated. The whitish hind-margin, which is inter- 

 sected by a black line at the base of the fringes, is narrower 

 than on the fore-wings. 



" The caterpillar is somewhat hairy, bright green, with in- 

 numerable white dots ; it feeds upon a kind of dock. \Rtimex 

 hydrolapathum^ the great water-dock, and R, aquatiats 

 (Stainton).] The chrysalis is at first green, then pale ash- 

 coloured, with a dark dorsal line, and two abbreviated white 

 ones on each side; and lastly, sometimes deep brown" 

 {Stephens). 



When I used to visit the late Mr. Henry Doubleday, at 



