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Abroad it is widely distributed in Europe and Asia, and 

 has even been found in Japan. 



Genus 2. CHRYSOPHANUS, HUb. 



Antennaj slender, with a narrow club. Thorax stout. 

 Fore wings orange-red, with a brilliant coppery lustre and 

 dark margins, or suffused with purplish or blackish. Hind 

 wings not tailed, but in many instances indented at the anal 

 angle. 



Larva onisciform ; feeding in most cases on some species of 

 Eumex (dock or sorrel). 



Pupa short, rounded in front, dorsal region convex, blunt 

 behind. 



[C. virgaureae, Z. — Expanse, \\ inch. Male brilliant 

 copper colour, with hind margin of all the wings, and dorsal 

 margin of the hind wings, dark brown. Female pale orange 

 brown, rather glossy, with brown margins and numerous spots 

 in the fore wings, two in the discal cell and two complete 

 rows before the hind margin ; hind wings clouded with brown, 

 having a rather square central black spot, and an irregular 

 band of the same beyond it, followed by two rows of round 

 spots, the second marginal. Under side of fore wings pale 

 orange, with about ten black spots and a darker margin ; hind 

 wings orange-grey, with numerous black dots, and an irregular 

 band of black spots beyond the middle ; hind margin clouded 

 with orange. 



This species was recorded as British by most of the older 

 writers, Haworth stating that it was found in marshes, while 

 Westwood mentions marshes in Cambridgeshire and Hunting- 

 donshire, and states that he possesses a specimen given to 

 him by Mr. Haworth as an undoubted native. It is therefore 

 by no means impossible that it may have existed here at one 

 period, and since become extinct. 



