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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 Itubi. 
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- 
liind the middle of the secondary wings.” 
* Stephen’s Illus., Haust. i. 77. 
