LYC^ENA. 123 



Papilio chryseiS) Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien. p. 181, no. 3 (1776); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. 



figs- 337, 33 8 > 355 ( l8 3 ? ) ; Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 41, 



no. 53 (1803). 

 Papilio euridice. Von Rottemburg, Naturforscher, vi. p. 28, 



no. 17 (i775); Esper, Schmett. i. (i) p. 329, pi. 31, 



fig- 3(i773). 

 Lycana hippothoe, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 55, 



pi. 14, fig. 12 (1879). 



Polyommatus hippotlioe, Lang, Butterflies Eur. p. 92, pi. 20, 



fig. 4 (1881). 

 Polyommatus chryseis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 667, no. 163 



(1823). 



Chrysophanus chryseis, Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. i. p. 60 (1892). 

 Lycana chryseis, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 80 



(1828). 

 Var. Papilio eurybia, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. i. (2) p. 



81 (1808). 

 Polyommatus eurybia, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. ii. pi. 163, fig. 4 



" (1836). 

 Papilio euridice, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 339-342 



(1803?); Esper, Schmett. i. (2) p. 120, pi. 116, figs. 6, 



7 (1806?). 

 Polyommatus euridice^ Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 668, no. 164 



(1823). 

 Polyommatus hippothoe, var. eurybia, Lang, Butterflies Eur. 



p. 92, pi. 20, fig. 5 (1881). 



The Purple-edged Copper Butterfly was recorded by all the 

 older writers on entomology as British. It is common in many 

 parts of Europe and Northern and Western Asia, frequenting 

 flowery meadows near woods and grassy slopes from June to 

 August. It appears to have formerly inhabited the south of 

 England, but is probably now extinct. Epping Forest, and 



