^18 GREEN HAIR-STREAK. 



The caterpillar is pubescent, light green or green- 

 ish-yellow, with a row of triangular yellow spots on 

 each side, and a white line just above the feet. It 

 feeds on brambles, broom, and many other plants. 

 The fly appears in the end of May, and beginning 

 of June ; a second brood takes flight in August. 

 It is not a very common species, but its ascertained 

 localities indicate that it is pretty generally distri- 

 buted throughout England and the southern division 

 of Scotland. It occurs in Darenth Wood, Bromley 

 Thickets in Essex, in Devonshire, &c. We have 

 seen many specimens from the neighbourhood of 

 Raehills, and other parts of Dumfriesshire, and have 

 observed the butterfly occasionally in some of the 

 central districts of Roxburghshire, " Keswick, and 

 some of the Yorkshire Wolds," G. JVailes, Esq. 



