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LARGE COPPER.
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of the wing, near the front edge; some of the spots from the
under side sheAV faintly through in some lights. The hind
wings are of the like colour and markings, only that the
outside black border is indented and equally wide all along,
except at the uppermost part, where it is narrower; the whole
of the inner edge, from the base downwards, is dusky black.
Underneath, the fore wings are pale orange, the outside
edge blue ash grey; there are two large and one small black
spots, placed horizontally, in a row from near the base, their
edges bordered with a line of still paler orange; the inner one
is the smallest: these are succeeded by a transverse row of
seven others, of smaller comparative sizes, three and four, and
there is a row of small faint black crescents on the inner
edge of the grey band. The hind wings are silvery greyish
blue, brightest near the base, followed by abroad oblong orange
bar, which again is edged by the grey and a row on each
side of black dots, the inner ones larger than the outer; on
the grey part the black oblong mark shews through, there
being within it five or six black dots, one near the upper
edge large, and an irregular row of about nine others near
the orange band.
In the female the copper on the fore wings is of a deeper
colour, with a wide dusky black border running over part of
the front edge: the lower part of these wings near the base
is also dusky black, and there are two large black spots placed
horizontally near the front edge, and a transverse row of six
or seven other ones towards the margin, the middle ones being
large and elongated. In the hind wings the copper is almost
entirely hid by blackish brown, excepting a broad bar of
copper near the outer edge, indented by the black on its
outer margin, and running up into the black, which it intersects
in narroAv streaks: the outer edge is bluish Avhite.
The caterpillar is described by the late Mr. J. F. Stephens as
of a bright green colour, with innumerable white dots.
The chrysalis was "at first green, then pale ash-coloured, with
a dark dorsal line, and two abbreviated white ones on each
side, and lastly sometimes deep broAvn."