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THE GOLDEN COPPER BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Chryseis. 



PLATE XII. 



Papilio Chryseis, Leach's Zoological Miscellany, pi. 13, page 



27 Fab. Mont. Ins. ii. p. 79, No. 725 Gmelin's Linn. 



Systema Naturae, p. 2359, No. 815 Wein. Schmetterl. 



181, No. 3. 



THE wings of the male are yellow orange above, 

 with black margins, and a black spot on the upper 

 ones, which are of a blue colour ; the female is- 

 orange above, clouded and spotted with black. 

 Both are brown beneath, with twenty, seven eye- 

 like spots, or annulets. The wings extend one 

 inch and five-twelfths to half an inch. It appears 

 in the winged state in August and September. 



This pretty insect was first introduced to the 

 notice of the British entomologist by Dr Leach in 

 his "Zoological Miscellany," and was caught by 

 Mr Plasted of Chelsea, in Ashdown Forest, Sussex, 

 and also near Epping, and is a very rare insect. 



