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Great Copper

Chrysophanus xanthoides

Plate XXVIII — Great Copper is Fig. 29
Plate XXVIII — Great Copper is Fig. 29

Butterfly.--The student will easily recognize it by its larger size, it being the largest species of the genus in North America, and by its creamy-white under surface, spotted with distinct small black spots, in large part reproducing the spots of the upper side. Expanse, 1.50-1.65 inch.