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PLATE XCVII. 



PHAL^NA LUCIDATA. 

 Dartford Emerald Moth, 

 lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas taper from the bafe. Wings in general contracted when 

 at reft. Fly by night. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Fine lucid green, two white waves acrofs the upper, and one acrofs 

 the under wings. 



This fpecies we have ever found peculiar to the woods about two 

 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 Linneus nor Fabricius; Hams 

 does not mention it in his catalogue of Englifh Moths, nor has a figure 

 of it been given in any preceding publication that have come under 

 our infpeclion. 



The fpecific name is intended to exprefs the lucid or tranfparent 

 appearance of the Infect. 



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