120 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Corcan form of the insect (var. Z. aurata, Leech) appears to be 

 quite as near to true Z. dispar (though somewhat smaller) as 

 to Z. rutila. 



The Large Copper measures an inch and three-quarters, or 

 two inches across the wings. The male is of a brilliant 

 coppery-red, with a narrow black border, and well-marked long 

 discoidal spots, within which is a black spot in the cell on 

 the fore-wings. The female is of a more orange colour above, 

 with one, and often two, black spots in the cell of the fore- 

 wings, within the discoidal spot ; beyond the cell is a row of 

 large black spots. The hind-wings are blackish, with the 

 nervures more or less orange, and a broad coppery sub- 

 marginal band, indented by black spots resting upon the 

 border. On the under side the fore-wings are of a paler 

 copper, with the hind-margin greyish, intersected by a black 

 line, and preceded by a row of black spots between the 

 nervures. All the other spots on the wings are ringed with 

 white ; there are two in the cell, and a third at its extremity, 

 and a curved row of large spots beyond. The hind-wings are 

 blue, with four or five basal eyes, an ocellated discoidal 

 streak, a row of large spots beyond, and a broad orange sub- 

 marginal band, bordered on both sides with a row of black 

 spots, not ocellated. The whitish hind-margin, which is inter- 

 sected by a black line at the base of the fringes, is narrower 

 than on the fore-wings. 



" The caterpillar is somewhat hairy, bright green, with in- 

 numerable white dots ; it feeds upon a kind of dock. {Rumex 

 hydrolapathum, the great water-dock, and R. aquaticus 

 (Stainton).] The chrysalis is 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" 

 (Stephens). 



When I se4 to visit the late Mr. Henry Doublcday, a.t 



