124 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Ashdown Forest in Sussex, are mentioned as its localities in 

 Britain. The former is very doubtful, and the latter, though 

 said to have produced many varieties in former times, has been 

 little visited lately by entomologists. I have also seen a pair 

 in the collection of the late Mr. T. Marshall, of Leicester, who 

 told me that he picked them out of a quantity of L. dispar 

 received from Cambridgeshire at a time when the latter insect 

 was selling for threepence a specimen, and I therefore see no 

 reason to doubt the British origin of the specimens of L. hip- 

 pothoe also. Mr. C. W. Dale has lately called attention to an 

 old record of the occurrence of this species near London. 

 As regards Ashdown Forest, I may take the present oppor- 

 tunity of mentioning that repeated reports have reached the 

 Brighton entomologists of the occurrence of " Large Coppers " 

 in out-of-the-way parts of Sussex. I heard of such reports 

 about 1859, and again in 1892. If there is any truth in them, 

 I expect they will be found to relate to the present species 

 rather than to L. dispar. 



The Purple-Edged Copper measures about an inch and a 

 quarter across the wings, which are of a bright copper-red in 

 the male, with slender discoidal lunules, and rather broad 

 borders, glossed with purple. On the hind-wings is a narrow 

 sub-marginal coppery band. The female varies on the fore- 

 wings from brown shot with copper, to rather dull copper, and 

 is marked with one or two irregular rows of black spots. The 

 hind-wings are brown, with a sub-marginal orange or copper 

 streak enclosing black spots. On the centre, which is some- 

 times tinged with copper, is generally a row of still darker 

 spots. 



The fore-wings are orange beneath, with the hind-margin ashy- 

 grey. There are two eyes in the cell before the discoidal one, 

 and two rows of eyes beyond, the outer one slightly obsolete. 

 The hind-wings are bluish at the base, and marked with 



