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In this kind of district in the Isle of Ely, has been taken that scarce and 

 beautiful butterfly Lycana virgaurece," by a Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, Donovan also states one was taken in Cambridgeshire, and Papilio 

 virgaurece and Papilio hippothoe (meaning Bispar), have been frequently 

 confounded with each other ; but on a comparison, a material difference will 

 be discovered. Moses Harris has figured Phlceas under the name of Vir- 

 gaurece, but he was misled by Linnaeus, who referred a description of Bay's, 

 to VirgaurecB instead of Phlceas. 



CHRYSOPHANUS HIPPOTHOE. 



Purple-edged Copper, 



Hippothoe, Linn. Hippo'thoe, the mother of Taphius, of the race of 

 Perseus. 



There has existed a certain amount of confusion, concerning the name of 

 the present species. Fabricius thinking Linnseus' description applied to 

 Bispar, named the present species Chryseis. But the specimen in the 

 Linnsean cabinet is not Dispar, but the Chryseis of Fabricius. 



In the "Pinax rerum Naturalium Britannicarum " of Dr. Christopher 

 Merrett, published at London in 1667, is the following description of a 

 butterfly, " Cum externis coccineis externis purpurascentibus." Mr. Haworth 

 observes in his " Review of Entomology " published in the " Transactions of 

 the Entomological Society" for 1812, "That Merrett should have been 

 acquainted with Papilio chryseis, the Purple -edged Copper as British is 

 indeed singular, but his words ' externis purpurascentibus/ by which I 

 understood ' externis marginibus/ &c, absolutely and pointedly agree with it, 

 and as absolutely and pointedly disagree with every other known British 

 species." 



Z The next account of it we have is in " Sowerby's British Miscellany, pub- 

 lished in 1806, as follows, "This new British Papilio was caught by Mr. 

 Plasted, of Chelsea, in Ashdown Forest, Sussex." 



It may perhaps be asked, What other species did Mr. Plasted take ? Why ! 

 Satyrus hero and arcanius, in Ashdown Forest ; Acontia catena, at Brixton ; 

 and Acontia caloris, in the neighbourhood of London. 



In his " British Entomology" Curtis wrote, "Chryseis was abundant in 

 August and September, 1818, at Woodside, near Epping." 



In his " Illustrations of British Entomology " Stephens wrote, " Dr. Leach 

 received fine and recent specimens from the vicinity of Epping, for several 

 successive seasons." Probably they were from the same person, supposed to 

 be a dealer, who is said to have taken Calophasia Unarm in June, 1817, 

 at Woodside, near Epping. 



