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domen slender and tapering, reddish or greenish-yellow. 

 Thorax and wing-cases yellowy the latter more or less 

 suffused with green. 



Eupithecia pimpinellata. I am inclined to suspect that 

 this insect has been wrongly named. I have constantly and 

 most closely examined both flowers and seeds of Pimpinella 

 magna and P. saxifragay but could never detect the slightest 

 trace of the larva. I have repeatedly beaten it from the 

 flowers of the golden rod (Solidago virgaurea), and from 

 that plant alone, though both species of Pimpinella are 

 common in the locality. The larva is fulvous, with a series 

 of black dorsal triangular spots, becoming confluent towards 

 the head, and faint or altogether evanescent on the caudal 

 segment. On either side a row of conspicuous, slanting 

 whitish or yellowish stripes, forming a sort of margin to the 

 dorsal spots. Belly dusky, reddish in the centre, and having 

 a dusky central line running the whole length. Body 

 studded with various sized white tubercles, and thinly clothed 

 with short hairs. Feeds upon the flowers of Solidago vir- 

 gaurea, in August and September. I have found it by no 

 means rare in the Kentish Woods, where the underwood is 

 from one to two years' growth, and the golden rod has room 

 to grow and flower freely. In confinement the larva will 

 feed freely on Senecio Jacobcea and S. palustris. The 

 pupa, which is enclosed in a slightly spun earthen cocoon, is 

 very distinct from all the rest of the family. The thorax is 

 yellowish-green, with a very accurately and distinctly de- 

 fined border, and looks almost as if set in a frame. When 

 examined with a glass, some singular dark spots and mark- 

 ings are seen, which give it very much the appearance of a 

 skull. The abdomen is yeliovvish-red, with two indistinct, 

 interrupted dorsal, and two more distinct sub-dorsal dusky 

 lines. Wing-cases yellowish-olive, streaked with dusky 



