142 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Var. 2. When young uniform pale green. After the last 

 moult assumes a series of brown dorsal spots, united hj a 

 central line of the same colour. Ground-colour dirty yel- 

 lowish-green. Sub-dorsal lines dusky. Dorsal spots merged 

 in the central line on the anterior and posterior segments. 

 Sides suffused with dusky reddish-brown, and traversed by 

 slender waved lines of the same colour. Head greenish, 

 marked with black. Belly greenish. Body covered wnth 

 small white tubercles, and sprinkled with a few short white 

 hairs. The brown suffusion is sometimes wanting, leaving 

 the larva an uniform bright green, with a single chain of 

 brown dorsal lozenges. 



Var. 3. Ground-colour after last moult pinkish. Back 

 and belly tinged with green. Central dorsal line dark green, 

 bordered on each of the middle segments by a black dot. 

 Segmental divisions reddish. In other respects resembling 

 Var. 2. Feeds on black currant and wild hops, occasionally 

 on red currant. Full fed from September to beginning of 

 November. Pupa yellowish-green in an earthen cocoon. 

 Perfect insect appears in June. 



JEupifhecia tenuiata. Short and stumpy. Ground- 

 colour dirty yellowish-green. Sides and centre of back 

 slightly tinged with rose colour. Down the centre of the 

 back a row of very indistinct dusky spots, becoming con- 

 fluent in a black line at the anal segment, and bordered by 

 an interrupted black line. On each side a row of slanting 

 tubercular flesh-coloured stripes. Head and fore feet black. 

 Feeds on the catkins of sallow in spring. Full fed the end 

 of March and beginning of April. In appearance it much 

 resembles the larva of EapHhecki Eaivortliiata. I am in- 

 debted to the kindness of Mr. Doubleday for the larva from 

 which the foregoing description was taken. 



