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PURPLE-EDGED COPPER. 
Lyccena Chryseis. 
PLATE XXX. Pig. 1. 
Hesperia Chryseis, Fair — Pap. Chryseis ; ' Purple-edged 
Copper, Haworth Sowerby, B. M. 1st. pi. 13. — Lycaena 
Chryseis, Jermyn, Steph. 
Fui.gid copper colour above, the base and outer 
margin of all the wings brown, glossed with purple, 
and the centre of each wing marked transversely with 
a short, slender, black streak. The disk of the ante- 
rior wings beneath is orange, the anterior margin ash- 
grey ; and over the surface there are numerous ocel- 
lated spots, with a black pupil and white iris, three 
of them towards the base placed longitudinally, and 
the rest forming two irregular bands, of which the 
marginal one is somewhat obsolete : the posterior 
wings on the under side are glossed with blue at the 
base, and bear numerous scattered ocellated dots, 
forming irregular transverse rows towards the apex ; 
the latter ornamented with an orange band. The 
fringe is brown at the base, and white externally. 
This is also a very rare insect in Britain. The 
only localities which we have heard of, are those 
