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home of the Large Copper used to be at Whittlesea Mere, 

 in Cambridgeshire, and at Yaxley and Holm Fens, in 

 Huntingdonshire, while it has been taken at Benacre, 

 in Suffolk, and at Bardolph Fen, in Norfolk. The drainage 

 of the Fens has no doubt a good deal to do with its 



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extinction ; but it may be due more to the large numbers 

 taken by collectors, the discovery of the larva, and the 

 burning of the herbage of the reclaimed Fens. 



The eggs appear to have been laid in August, on the 

 leaves of the Great Water-dock (Rumex Hydrolapathum}. 



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