LARGE COPPER, 



Lycaena dispar. 

 PLATE XXIX. FIGS. 1 & 2. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. pi. 12 Pap. dispar, Haw Pap. Hip. 



pothoe, Donovan, vii. pi. 217. Lewin, pi. 40 Lycaena 



Hippothoe, Jermyn. L, dispar, Swainson's Zool. Ittut. 

 pi. 132. 



THE male of this fine insect is bright shining cop- 

 per colour above, with a black margin round all the 

 wings, which is crenated in the hinder pair ; the base 

 of the primary, and the abdominal margin of the se- 

 condary wings is likewise blackish, and on the disk 

 of the former are two small black spots, and near the 

 middle of the latter a narrow curved black streak. 

 The female has the upper wings broadly margined 

 behind with black, two or three spots of the same 

 colour arranged longitudinally on the disk, and a 

 transverse row of six or seven black spots a little be- 

 yond the middle ; the hinder wings are almost en- 

 tirely black, except the nervures, and a broad band 

 near the apex, which are coppery red. Beneath, 

 both sexes are similar ; the upper wings coppery, but 

 with less lustre than the surface, having three black 

 spots placed longitudinally, and a transverse row be- 

 yond the middle, all of them surrounded with a yel 

 low ring ; near the posterior margin there is another 



