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darker brown marldngs, and below the two outer marks a 

 large, dark, oval spot, placed rather high up, beyond wliich 

 is a very faint indication (often invisible) of a whitish spotted 

 line, terminated by a twin-spot near the anal angle, and 

 edged with dark brown ; wing-rays dark and well defined ; 

 abdomen smooth ; hind wings large, dark cold-brown, having 

 a marginal line of long dark streaks, terminated with a 

 distinct light anal spot. 



Larva : — Form, when young, slender, cylindrical ; when 

 older, rather stout, attenuated to both extremities, much 

 appressed in the central segments, and somewhat rugose. 

 Colour, from French-white, pale straw-colour, ashy gray, to 

 light pea-greens and faint purplish peachy browns, and dirty 

 dim colours of various shades. With numerous specimens 

 before me, no two are alike, but shade away in every direction 

 from the above colours : a pale pea-green ground predomi- 

 nates, dark ashy grays are plentiful, and a few with light 

 purplish pink grounds may be seen, while in some the 

 ground colour is reddish brown of various shades; altogether 

 they are not elegant or attractive in their variations, and only 

 a few of the varieties could be called pretty. Size, three- 

 fourths to seven-eighths of an inch. Head horn-like, very 

 small, ornamented with various marks and shadings ; corslet 

 small and dull, distinctly striate. On the central segment 

 there is a well-defined, spade-shaped dark mark, pointing 

 forwards, through which the light dorsal streak is often con- 

 spicuous; this mark appears as a broad-arrow head, in some 

 positions edged with a light, rough, raised line, which passes 

 down slantingly to the spiracular region through the subdorsal 

 line, which is often well defined. In this species the central 

 markings are lost on the anterior and anal segments, merging** 

 into the ground colour, as they usually do in other closely- 

 allied species of this group of the genus Eupithecia, as at 

 present constituted, Spiracular line wavy and well defined; 

 spiracles dark, with a distinct light ring round each ; under 

 side light, and generally inclined to ashy green ; feet light, 

 horn-like. General appearance rather coarse, rough, and 

 somewhat hairy. Not so stout as the larva? of E. absynthiata 

 or Minutata, and larger than the heath-feeder relatively. 

 Whilst some remind you of Expallidata larva), others recall 

 those of Succenturiata ; but we see the subdorsal line in 



