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PLATE XL.<br />
94<br />
BLACK HAIRSTREAK.<br />
Thecla pruni, STEPHENS. CCETIS. DUNCAN.<br />
" " WESTWOOD.<br />
Papilio pruni, TJINN^EUS. HUBNEE.<br />
Strymon pruni, HUBNEE.<br />
Lycana pruni, OCHSENHEIMEB.<br />
BARNWELL and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of<br />
Polebrook, Northamptonshire, where the Rev. William Bree<br />
has captured it in plenty, Black Hill, near Exmouth, DeA r on-<br />
shire, where James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford,<br />
has taken it, and Monk's Wood, in Huntingdonshire, are<br />
localities for this fly.<br />
It appears the middle of July, but has been taken I believe<br />
so soon as the 18th. of June.<br />
This species averages about an inch and a quarter in the<br />
expansion of its wings. The fore ones are of a blackish<br />
brown colour, with a light silky patch near the middle towards<br />
the front edge. The hind wings have two or three, or more,<br />
pale orange-coloured semicircular-shaped spots near their hind<br />
margin at the inner corner, and extending more or less<br />
forAvards, often running much together into a line.<br />
Underneath, the ground colour is an ash grey, the fore wings<br />
having a slender, nearly straight, bluish white line extending<br />
nearly across them beyond the middle; outside this line there<br />
are several obscure fulvous patches, those nearest to the lowest<br />
corner being preceded by a black and silver dot or eyelet.<br />
The white line proceeds from the fore wings, and reaches to<br />
the inner margin of the hind wings, where it becomes more<br />
irregular, someAvhat resembling an obtuse W The black spots,
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