132 LEPIDOPTERA. 



It feeds upon the same plants and in the same localities as 

 Eup'itheda satyrata, preferring perhaps Apargia hispida 

 and Crepis taraxifoUa. It is full fed at the end of August 

 and throughout September. The pupa, enclosed in an 

 earthen cocoon, has the thorax and winor-cases dark green. 

 Abdomen ochreous, tip dusky red. The perfect insect 

 appears in June. 



Eiipithecia Sarvorthiota. This larva seems to be little 

 known, and has not, I think, been described. I have, how- 

 ever, taken it in plenty, wherever its food plant. Clematis 

 vitalba, occurs. It is very short and stumpy, the ground- 

 colour pale bluish or yellowish-green, with three horizontal 

 doi'sal stripes of a darker shade; these stripes are often very 

 indistinct, and sometimes altogether wanting. The head is 

 dusky, spotted with olive, and the body sparingly studded 

 with minute black dots. It is full fed from the middle of 

 July to the middle of August. It feeds inside the unopened 

 flower-buds of Clematis vitalba^ commonly known as the 

 *' traveller's joy." When nearly full, it frequently feeds 

 among the stamens of the expanded flower, and may then be 

 beaten into an umbrella ; it also feeds on the common white 

 garden Clematis. The presence of the larva may generally 

 be detected by the blackened appearance of the flower-buds. 

 When it has eaten up the inside of one bud, it comes out and 

 bores into a fresh one ; I have frequently seen a larva busily 

 engaged in this operation. In shape and general appearance 

 it is closely allied to the larva of JEupithecia tenuiata. The 

 pupa is enclosed in a very tightly-spun earthen cocoon. The 

 thorax and wing-cases are green, and the abdomen red. The 

 perfect insect appears in June and the beginning of July, 

 and is abundant among Clematis vitalba; it flies about with 

 extreme rapidity in the hot sunshine, and it is almost in- 

 variably wasted when caught j when fresh, the upper part of 

 the abdomen is orange. 



