DARK UNDER-WING COPPER. 
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cited by Miss Jermyn, viz. Epping Forest, Essex, 
and Ashdownham in Sussex. 
DARK UNDER-WING COPPER. 
Lyccena Hippothoe. 
PLATE XXX. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Hippothoe, Linn . — Lyciena Hippothoe, Stephens 
Dark Under-winged Copper, Haworth. 
Expansion of the wings from 15 to 17 lines, 
the colour of the surface bright fulvous, with a nar- 
row external black border, which is entire in the 
primary wings, but crenated internally in the secon- 
dary : besides this, there is a minute transverse 
black mark in the middle of each wing. The su- 
perior wings are yellowish beneath, inclining to ash 
colour, with numerous black spots cinctured with 
white ; the inferior pair ash-coloured, with many 
ocellated dots, and a fulvous band posteriorly, spotted 
on each side with black. In the markings on the 
upper side, the female resembles the same sex of 
the preceding species ; but the hinder wings are en- 
tirely black, except a posterior band of yellow, cre- 
nated on its outer side. 
Only one or two specimens of this insect have 
been found in Britain, and they seem to have been 
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