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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Notes on Eupithecije. 



By the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, M.A. 



Since my last notes on the larvae of the genus Eupithccia 

 appeared in the "Annual" two years since, I have been 

 successful in working out the life-history of four additional 

 species of this most interesting but, comparatively speaking, 

 neglected family, viz. E. dehiliata, Hiib., E. pulchellata, 

 Steph., E. lariciata, Frey, and E. campnnulata, H.-S. 

 The first named species, E. debiliata, was, till quite lately, 

 considered one of our rarest British insects, and its larva was 

 unknown both here and on the Continent. M. D'Orville 

 of Alphington near Exeter, and Dr. Breyer of Brussels, have 

 been mainly instrumental in working out its oeconomy, and 

 to them I am indebted for almost all my knowledge of it- 

 self and its habits. E. pulrhtllata, though pretty well 

 known and widely distributed in the perfect state, had, till 

 the present summer, baffled all the efforts of Entomologists 

 at home and abroad to discover its larva. My valued and 

 indefatigable correspondents, the Rev. J. Hellins of Exeter 

 and Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson of Preston, have at last helped 

 me to solve the mystery, and the larva of E. jndcheUata 

 will henceforth probably prove one of our commonest cater- 

 pillars. The two last-named species, E. lariciata and cam- 

 jjamdata, are entirely new to our British list. For my 

 acquaintance with the larva of the former I am indebted to 

 the kindness of Mr. Edward Hopley, of 14, South Bank, 



