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THE GREAT COPPER BUTTERFLY, 
Papilio Hippothoe.—Britain. 
PLATE XVIII. 
Papilio Hippothoe, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii, p. 798, No. 254, 
—Donovan’s Brit. Ins. pl. 217. 
Tue whole upper surface of the wings has a 
brilliant red copper lustre, as well as the body ; all 
the wings have an external border of deep black, and 
the upper ones a row of oblong, transverse, equi- 
distant, black spots within the border, and two black 
spots near the centre of the wings; the border on 
the lower wings is vandyked at its upper edge; a 
black longitudinal line runs along the centre of the 
body ; the lower wings are semi-swallow-tailed. 
The under surface of the upper wings is brownish 
ash colour, ocellated with black, having a broad 
cream-coloured border; the lower wings are grayish 
blue, and ocellated with black; exterior margin 
of same colour, within which is a broad border, or 
fillet, the same colour as the upper wings, with a 
row of equidistant black round spots on each side ; 
body, beneath, fawn-colour. 
This is the largest of the Copper Butterflies which 
is found in Britain; it is not uncommon in Scot- 
land. The female is larger than the male, and 
with a greater number of black spots on the wings, 
