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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- 

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



GREEN HAIR-STREAK. 



Thecla Rub*. 

 PLATE XXVIIi. FIG. 3, 



Pap. Rubi, Linn. Lewin, 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 Illus., Haust. i. 77. 



