106 LEPIDOPTERA. 



EUPITHECIA LARICIATA, FlTjer. 



Frey. Neu. Beitr. iv. p. 135, pi. 366— Her.-Sch. p. 119 et 

 127, fig. 170 (173, 174, var.) Gn. ii. 327-Led.— Lah. 

 191 — Law., Frey. 

 Of this pug Mr. Doubleday thus writes (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 vol. i. p. 94) :—'' * * * In the autumn of 1862 Mr. 

 Thomas Eedle of Hackney brought me a number of JEupi- 

 tkecice which he had taken in the course of the summer, and 

 I detected among them five or six specimens of this species. 

 I had very little doubt about its being the true lariciata of 

 Freyer, but I was desirous of seeing the larva before I pub- 

 lished any account of it. * * * Mr. Hopley discovered 

 the insect in another locality, and kindly sent me some eggs 

 a few weeks since, from which I have reared larvse corre- 

 sponding exactly with Freyer's figures ; doubt on the subject 

 is therefore removed, and Eiipithecia lariciata must be added 

 to the British lists." 



Mr. Edward Hopley (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 50) gives 

 for this species two distinct localities, namely, *' on Ashdown 

 Forest, in a pine-plantation near the little hamlet of Wych- 

 Cross," and '*on Leith Hill," in which latter locality he 

 had taken it in the previous year, Mr. Hopley, after going 

 on to state that the end of May is the best time to look after 

 the perfect insect, remarks, "it bears considerable resemblance 

 to Eup. castifjata, but the wings are longer and the colour 

 less brown in tint ; a white spot behind the thorax also pre- 

 sents a good character." As these distinctions are amply suf- 

 ficient to enable any Entomologist to separate these species, I 

 refrain from giving a further diagnosis. The same dif- 

 ferences will readily distinguish it from Eup. pusillata, to 

 which it also bears a resemblance, and between which and 

 Eup. castigata M. Guenee has very appropriately placed it. 

 The larva and pupa are described by the Rev. H. Harpur 



