DARK UNDER-WING COPPER. 225 



cited by Miss Jermyn, viz. Epping Forest, Essex, 

 and Ashdownham in Sussex. 



DARK UNDER-WING COPPER 



Lyccena Hippotho't. 



PLATE XXX. Fig. 2. 



Pap. Hippothoe', Linn. — Lycsena Hippothoe, Stephens.— 

 Dark Under-winged Copper, Haworth. 



Expansion of the wings from 15 to 17 lines, 

 the colour of the surface bright fulvous, with a nar- 

 row external black border, which is entire in the 

 primary wings, but crenated internally in the secon- 

 dary : besides this, there is a minute transverse 

 black mark in the middle of each wing. The su- 

 perior wings are yellowish beneath, inclining to ash 

 colour, with numerous black spots cinctured with 

 white; the inferior pair ash coloured, with many 

 ocellated dots, and a fulvous hand posteriorly, spotted 

 on each side with black. In the markings on the 

 upper side, the female resembles the same sex of 

 the preceding species ; but the hinder wings are en- 

 tirely black, except a posterior band of yellow, cre- 

 nated on its outer side. 



Only one or two specimens of this insect have 

 been found in Britain, and they seem to have been 



