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LARGE COPPER. 
Lyccena dispar. 
PLATE XXIX. Figs. 1 & 2. 
Curtis, Brit. Ent. i. pi. 12 Pap. dispar. Haw Pap. Ilip- 
pothoe, Donovan, vii. pi. 217 —Lewin, pi. 40 Lvcsna 
Hippothoe, Jermyn — L. dispar, Swainson's Zool. Illus. 
pi. 132. 
The male of this fine insect is bright shining cop- 
per colour above, with a black margin round all the 
wings, which is crenated in the binder pair ; the base 
of the primary, and the abdominal margin of the se- 
condary wings is likewise blackish, and on the disk 
of the former are two small black spots, and near the 
middle of the latter a narrow curved black Btreak. 
The female has the upper wings broadly margined 
behind with black, two or three spots of the same 
colour arranged longitudinally on the disk, and a 
transverse row of six or seven black spots a little be- 
yond the middle ; the hinder wings are almost en- 
tirely black, except the nervures, and a broad band 
near the apex, which are coppery red. Beneath, 
both sexes are similar; the upper wings coppery, but 
with less lustre than the surface, having three black 
spots placed longitudinally, and a transverse row be- 
yond the middle, all of them surrounded with a yel- 
low ring ; near the posterior margin there is another 
