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PHALHMNA LUCIDATA. 
-Aipoleeatane: EMERALD _Moru. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz taper from the bafe. Wings in general contracted when 
at reft. Fly by night. f 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Fine ae green, two white waves acrofs the upper, and one acrofs 
the under wings. 
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This fpecies we have ever found peculiar to the woods about tWo. is 
or three miles beyond Dartford (Kent), particularly on the fkirts of 
Darnwood, and near the banks of the river Thames at Queenhithe ; 
it has probably never. been taken elfewhere, or the name Dartford 
Emerald would not have been fo generally adopted by Collectors. 
It is not very frequent even in thofe local fituations, nor can we 
learn that its larva and pupa ftate has been afcertained before; the fpe- 
cies has neither been defcribed by Limneus nor Fabricius; Harris 
does not mention it in his catalogue of Englifh Moths, nor has a figure 
of it been given in any preceding aaah that have come under 
our infpection. 
The fpecific name is intended to exprefs the lucid or tranfparent 
appearance of the Infect. 
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