THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 154.] 



APRIL, MDCCCLXXVI. 



[Price 61. 



DescripUoii of Poii/sp/ianis sciici/ia J'rom Guenee, 

 By Edward Newman. 



PoLYsrH-Exis SERiciNA (female). 



This beautiful moth being now added to the list of the 

 Lepidoplera of the British Islands, oai account of its occur- 

 rence in Guernsey, 1 think it will be well to copy the 

 description from Guenee. 



" Fore wings bright grass-green, clouded with olive-green, 

 with the median area, or at least the upper part of it, of a still 

 brighter green, powdered wilh whitish; the two median lines 

 are very distinct, white, bordered with black ; extra-basilar 

 line deeply notched towards the lower extremity; the 

 elbowed line, with the teeth, very distinct, and prolonged 

 into black points. The ordinary markings are more or less 

 hidden in the greenish white ; the subterminal line is almost 

 reduced to white dots on the black wing-rays. Hind wings 

 reddish fulvous, with the wing-rays and a cellular mark 

 darker, and a broad, marginal, black band surmounted with 

 a very indistinct transverse line; these markings are per- 

 ceptible on the under side. That of the fore wings with a 



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