THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 154.] APRIL, MDCCCLXXVI. [Price 6d. 
Description of Polysphenis sericina from Guenée. 
By Epwarp NEWMAN. 
PoLysPHENIS SERICINA (female). 
Tuis beautiful moth being now added to the list of the 
Lepidoptera of the British Islands, on account of its occur- 
rence in Guernsey, I think it will be well to copy the 
description from Guenée. 
“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 with 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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