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they successively approached the bramble-bush, 

 where I had taken up my position. How to account 

 for their prodigious numbers I am perfectly unable, 

 as the same fields and hedges had been carefully ex- 

 plored by me at the same and different periods of 

 the year for several preceding seasons, without the 

 occurrence of a single specimen in either of its 

 stages ; and it is worthy of remark, that the hedges to 

 the north and north-west of the village, were perfect- 

 ly free, although the brambles, &c. were in plenty."* 



GREEN HAIR-STREAK. 



Thecla Rubi. 



PLATE XXVIII. Fig. 3. 



Pap. Rubi, Linn. — Leivin, pi. 44 — Donovan^ xiii. pi. 443. 

 —The Green Butterfly, Wilkes, pi. 118 — The Green Fly, 

 or Bramble Fly, Harris. 



Expansion of the wings about an inch, the 

 surface of a uniform brown tint in both sexes, with 

 the nervures somewhat darker, the female sometimes 

 having a faint whitish oval dot near the middle of 

 the upper wings, not far from the anterior border. 

 The under side is " fine green, with a transverse 

 row of white dots, often more or less obliterated, be- 

 hind the middle of the secondary wings." 

 * Stephen's lUus,, Haust. i. 77. 

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