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THE GOLDEN COPPER BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Chryseis. 
PLATE XII. 
Papilio Chryseis, Leach’s Zoological Miscellany, pl. 13, page 
27.—F ab. Mont. Ins. ii. p. 79, No. 725.—Gmelin’s Linn. 
Systema Nature, p. 2359, No. 815.—Wein. Schmetterl. 
181, No. 3. 
Tur 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, 
