LARENTID^—EUPITHECIA. 4' 



subdorsal lines of the same colour, narrow, interrupted on 

 the anal segment ; spiracular line narrow, broken, also dingy 

 purple ; undersurface whitish-green with a white central 

 line ; whole body ihickly studded with whitish hairs, and 

 occasionally suffused with dull, dingy purple. 



Or — Gi'ound colour dull yellowish or whitish-green ; dorsal 

 line dusky green ; subdorsal lines similar ; spiracular line 

 dull green, very narrow and faint ; segmental divisions 

 yellowish ; undersurface whitish-green, without markings. 



Or — Ground colour pale primrose, slightly suffused with 

 green ; dorsal line dull faint green, almost invisible on the 

 posterior segments ; subdorsal lines of the same colour, much 

 broken, having more the appearance of detached spots ; 

 spiracular line very faint, pale yellow ; undersurface 

 whitish. 



Or — Ground colour bright yellowish-green ; dorsal line 

 broad, pale olive ; subdorsal lines narrow, similar in colour ; 

 spaces between these lines bright yellow ; spiracular line 

 faint, broken, dusky-green ; undersurface sea-green. (Rev. 

 H, H. Crewe.) 



Some far darker forms are figured by Mr. W. Buckler, 

 pale yellow-brown, or olive-brown, with the dorsal stripe 

 very broad, blackish-brown and broken into a squared 

 blotch on each ses-ment, or narrower and unbroken but barred 

 with black-brown blotches which pass down the middles of 

 the segments to the spiracles ; or with the black-brown stripe 

 merelv constricted from segment to segment. Larv£e found 

 by Mr. McArthur in the Orkney Isles are described by him 

 as nearly black. 



Latter part of June till the beginning of August ; upon 

 foxglove {Digitalis 2Jurpvi\c() ; living within the blossom, the 

 lips of which it unites with silk, so that it is unable to open, 

 and remains, in appearance, a bud just ready to expand. 

 Within this the larva devours the pistil, stamens, and unripe 

 seeds. Its entrance is effected by biting through the side of 

 the large bud. 



