NOTES ON EUPITHECIA LARV^, 137 



The se^^mental divisions are yellow, and on the anal appen- 

 dage is a dark purplish spot. The belly is whitish and 

 wrinkled, with a dark green central line running the whole 

 length. A variety occurs in which the central dorsal line 

 is wanting, and its place is supplied by a series of dusky 

 triangular markings, becoming very faint or altogether 

 evanescent on the anterior and posterior segments ; on each 

 side is a row of slanting yellowish stripes, tinged with pink. 

 It feeds upon ash, and appears to prefer the tall suckers in 

 hedgerows. It is widely dispersed, but nowhei-e common. 

 It is full fed from the end of August to the middle of Sep- 

 tember. The pupa is long, rather slender and tapering. The 

 thorax and wing-cases are dark olive; the abdomen still 

 darker, almost black, tinged underneath with red. It is en- 

 closed in a slight earthen cocoon, at the foot, or under moss, 

 on the ti'unk of the tree. My friend Mr. Greene has already 

 given the Entomological world directions how to find it. 

 The perfect insect appears in June and July. 



Eupithecia nanata. Long and very slender, tapering 

 towards the head. Ground-colour white, or greenish-white, 

 with a chain of pear-shaped red dorsal spots, bordered on 

 either side by an interrupted line of the same colour, and 

 becoming confluent on the capital and anal segments. Sides 

 spotted with red. Belly with a central red line running the 

 wdiole length. Body clothed with a iew very short hairs. 

 A very pretty vai'iety of this larva has the ground-colour 

 bright green, with a series of tooth or pear-shaped white 

 dorsal spots, intersected by a central horizontal dark green 

 line, becoming purple at the anal tip. Spiracular line white, 

 broken. Back sprinkled with a few short black hairs. 

 Feeds on the flowers of Calluna vulgaris, in August and 

 September. Pupa enclosed in an earthen cocoon. Thorax 

 and wing-cases yellow. Abdomen deeply sufl'used with red. 



