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from either of tbem ; and again, in another list, we have the 

 long, slender, cylindrical larva of Snbfulvata of Ilaworlh 

 preceding the stout, swelled-out larva of Succenturiala of 

 Linn., followed by the long, slender larva of Centaureata, 

 which is followed again by the short, broad larva of Linariata. 

 Here, I think, we see how utterly chaotic our Eupithecidae 

 are placed; and in order to clear up the British species, and 

 place them somewhat more naturally, I have annexed a list, 

 drawn up and arranged entirely from my own knowledge of 

 the larvae of this genus. Had I obtained any assistance from 

 any of my friends the arrangement might have been more 

 perfect; but they might have had to share the blame of any 

 shortcomings. As it is, I alone am blameable ; but as I am 

 not acquainted with the larvce of more than six or eight of the 

 forty to fifty European Eupithecidae which are not British, I 

 make no pretence of placing the British species as I might 

 do had I bred nearly the whole of them, as I have bred the 

 British species. I may say, I treat one or two species, now 

 in our list, as mere aberrant forms of good species, and I also 

 reject Venosata and Togata as not being true Eupilhecias : 

 it may be that some of the continental Eupithecidae might 

 connect them with Curtis's genus in my mind if I knew these 

 larvae ; but, in the absence of such knowledge, 1 prefer to 

 reject them, or at best to place Venosata before the true 

 pugs. Its larva being so different from any other European 

 pug-larva I know, and utterly unlike any British pug-larva, 

 I shall then for perspicuity group our British species from 

 the form of the larva ; and as 1 have found, during many 

 years pug breeding, that this is a pretty general guide to 

 markings also, though not absolutely so, I shall follow the 

 annexed plan. 



Larva shortish, hrondfrom head to anus. — Venosata. 



Larva short-attenuate. — Plumbeolata, Isogrammata, Pyg- 

 meata, Helveticata = Arceuthata, Tenuiata, Kectangulata, 

 Pumilata, Debiliata, Valerianata. 



Larva medium and stout. — Trisignata, Pulchellata, Lina- 

 riata, Succenturiata, Satyrata, Expallidata, Albipunctata, 

 Companulala, Knautiata, Minulata, Absynthiata, Subnotata. 



Larva lony, cijliudrical, (jeneralhj tapering to head. — 

 Consignata, Castigala, Virgaureata = Pernotata {var.), Irri- 

 guata, Vulgata, Abbreviaia, Dodoneata, Exiguata, Pimpi- 

 nellata, Centaureata, Subfulvata, Nanata. 



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