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LARGE COPPER. 



Lyccena dispar. 



PLATE XXIX. Figs. 1 & 2. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. pi. 12 Pap. dispar. Haw Pap. Hip- 



pothoe, Donovan, vii. pi. 217 — Leivin, pi. 40 Lycaena 



Hippothoe, Jermyn. — L. dispar, Swainson's Zool. Illus. 

 P l. 132. 



The male of this fine insect is bright shining cop- 

 per colour above, with a black margin round all the 

 wings, which is crenated in the hinder pair ; the base 

 of the primary, and the abdominal margin of the se- 

 condary wings is likewise blackish, and on the disk 

 of the former are two small black spots, and near the 

 middle of the latter a narrow curved black streak. 

 The female has the upper wings broadly margined 

 behind with black, two or three spots of the sqme 

 colour arranged longitudinally on the disk, and a 

 transverse row of six or seven black spots a little be- 

 yond the middle ; the hinder wings are almost en- 

 tirely black, except the nervures, and a broad band 

 near the apex, which are coppery red. Beneath, 

 both sexes are similar ; the upper wings coppery, but 

 with less lustre than the surface, having three black 

 spots placed longitudinally, and a transverse row be- 

 yond the middle, all of them surrounded with a yel- 

 low ring ; near the posterior margin there is anothei 



