118 LARGE COPPER. 



sizes, three and four, and there is a row of small faint black crescents 

 on the inner edge of the grey band. The hind wings are silvery 

 greyish blue, brightest near the base, followed by a broad oblong 

 orange bar, which again is edged by the grey and a row oia each side 

 of black dots, the inner ones larger than the outer; on the grey part 

 the black oblong mark shews through, there being within it five or 

 six black dots, one near the upper edge large, and an irregular row 

 of about nine others near the orange band. 



In the female the copper on the fore wings is of a deeper colour, 

 with a wide dusky black border running over part of the front edge : 

 the lower part of these wings near the base is also dusky black, and 

 there are two large black spots placed horizontally near the front edge, 

 and a transverse row of six or seven other ones towards the margin, 

 the middle ones being large and elongated. In the hind wings the 

 copper is almost entirely hid by blackish brown, excepting a broad 

 bar of the former near the outer edge, indented by the black on its 

 outer margin, and running up into the black, which it intersects in 

 narrow streaks: the outer edge is bluish white. 



The caterpillar is described by the late Mr. J. F. Stephens as of a 

 bright green colour, with innumerable white dots. 



The chrysalis was "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." 



