CIIEYSOPHANUS. 



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becoming fiill-fed in the June following." The larva of rutilus is described 

 as green with a paler lateral stripe, and is stated to feed on various species of 

 Rumex and on Polygonnm historta. 



The typical form of this species was at one time common in the fenlands 

 of England, but has not been seen in lhat country since about the year 1848. 

 On the continent of Europe, C. dispar is represented by the form 7'utilus, 

 which occurs in France, Germany, and the South-east. This form is also 

 found in Asia Minor, Armenia, and the Altai, 



Chrysophanus phlsBas. 



Papilio pfi/ceas, Linnieiis^ Faun, Suec. p. 285 (1761). 



Pohjommtitiis phlceas, Godart, Enc. Meth, ix. p. 670 (1823) ; Lang, Butt. Eur. p. 95, 

 pi. xxi. fig. 4 (188i) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. p. 16, pi. iv. fig. 21, ? (1888). 



Chrysophanus phlceas, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. li. p. 498 (1852) ; de Nic^ville, 

 Butt. Ind. iii. p. 315, pi. xxvii. fig. 205, ^ (1890). 



Papilio timeus, Cramer, Pap. Exot, ii. p. 137, pi. clxxxvi. figs. E, F, ? (1777). 



Chrijsophamts stygianus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 408, pi. xxxix. fig. 5, ^ . 



Hesperia eleus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 430 (1798). 



Chrysophanus phlceas, var. chinensis, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. p. 488 

 (1862). 



" Male. Upperside : fore wing dark shining copper overlaid with blackish scales, with a somewhat 

 broad even black band on the enter margin ; a small black spot near the base of the discoidal 

 cell, a quadrate one in the middle, and an oblong one at its end ; a discal series of seven 

 rounded spots placed in echelon, the three upper ones from the subcostal nervure to the third 

 median nervule, the next two in the median interspaces, the last two (usually more or less 

 conjoined) in the submedian interspace. Hind wing blackish ; the discocellular nervules 

 marked with a linear deep black spot ; a broad coppery submargiual band from the anal 

 angle to the middle of the second subcostal interspace, inwardly marked with a series of 

 cordiforra black spots placed against the band, sometimes with a discal series of blue irrorated 

 spots, generally four in number ; the outer edge of the orange band deeply scalloped. Under- 

 side : fore wiug bright ochreous, the apex broadly, outer and inner margins less broadly, 

 brownish grey ; the black spots as above, but surrounded by a pale ochreous line ; the inner 

 edge posteriorly of the outer marginal band with three increasing black spots placed against 

 it. Hind wing brownish grey, with a few indistinct darker spots scattered evenly over the 

 surface ; with the coppery band of the upperside, but much narrower and obscure. Cilia 

 cinereous on the upperside, brownish grey on the underside. 



" Female. Upperside : fore wing with the copper coloration brighter and clearer than in the male, 

 the black spots smaller and better defined. Hind wing with the coppery band broader. 

 Underside : fore wing with four, instead of three, black spots placed against the outer 

 brownish-grey marginal band. Hind wing like the male." (de Niceville, I. c) 



Expanse, S ? , 1-2-1-G inch. 



3g 2 



