136 LEPIDOPTERA. 



markings, and having the nervures very prominent. The 

 }3erfect insect appears in May and the beginning of June. 

 The larva is rather slender, and tapers towards the head; in 

 general appearance it resembles E. casticjata and E, vid- 

 (jata. 



Eupithecia denotata. This larva, in size and general 

 appearance, closely resembles that of E. innotata. It is 

 long, rather slender and tapering towards the head. There 

 are two varieties : Var. 1 is green, with three purple dorsal 

 lines, the centre one broad and distinct, expanding conside- 

 rably on the anal segment, the two side ones very indistinct. 

 Head and prolegs pm-ple. Segmental divisions and spi- 

 racular line yellowish. Belly green. Back studded with a 

 few minute white tubercles, interspersed here and there with 

 a black one. V^ar. 2 is of a uniform purple, with two lines 

 of a deeper shade on each side of the back. It feeds, as far 

 as my experience goes, exclusively on the flowers and seeds 

 of the lesser Burnet saxifrage [Pimjnnella saxifrafjd), and 

 is full fed throughout the month of September, and occa- 

 sionally at the beginning of October. It prefers the hedge 

 sides and banks. It is fearfully infested with ichneumons, 

 not above one in ten escaping. The pupa is enclosed in an 

 earthen cocoon : there are two varieties ; the one yellowisli- 

 green, the other red. The j^erfect insect appears at the end 

 of June and in July. 



The larva is by no means rare in the eastern counties ; I 

 have also taken it in Derbyshire. 



Eupithecia innotata. This larva has, I think erroneously, 

 been said to feed upon various low growing plants ; I have 

 been acquainted with it for some years past, and never beat 

 it from anj^thing but ash. It is long, smooth, rather slender 

 and tapering towards the head. The ground-colour is a 

 uniform dark green, wath a waved yellowish spiracular line. 



