56 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs lias a specimen, in poor condition, wliicli 

 was taken by his uncle, and which he knows to be native. 

 He also informs me that a female specimen was captured in 

 this country by Archdeacon Bree, and is still in his cabinet. 

 In the Entomologist, the Rev. C. H. Capel Cure records that 

 on August 2Gth, 18G8, at Cromer, Norfolk, he took a female 

 specimen, which was identified at the British Museuin, he 

 havino' supposed it to be a variety of C. phlans. In the 

 Norwich Museum there is a specimen in the old collection of 

 Mr. Sparshall. 



The capture of these casual specimens, with the very 

 meagre information obtainable with regard to them, does not 

 seem to warrant the view that the species is, or has been 

 within recent times, an inhabitant of this country, but rather 

 that they may have been accidentally introduced in the larva 

 or pupa state with plants from abroad.] 



1. C. dispar, Haw. — Expanse, H to 2 inches. Coppery 

 red with black margin and central spot. Female with 

 numerous black spots, and having the hind wings mainly 

 blackish above and pale blue beneath. 



Brilliant coppery-red ; male having on the fore wings a 

 central black spot preceded by a small black dot ; costal and 

 hind margins blackish, most broadly so at the apex. Hind 

 wings with a central black streak, blackish dorsal margin, 

 and the hind margin having a blackish border in which is 

 embedded a row of black spots. Female, fore wings blackish 

 at the base, with two round black discal spots, and a transverse 

 row of black spots or wedges beyond the middle ; costal and 

 dorsal margins narrowly, and hind margin broadly, blackish ; 

 nervures also blackish. Hind wings black, with coppery 

 streaks and a broad copper-red sub-marginal band indented 

 by the marginal black spots. Under side of fore wings in 

 both sexes orange-red, with the spots smaller, and exterior 

 margins whitish ; hind wings bluish, with coppery margin and 

 numerous black spots, three rows of which lie aloug, or 



