LING PUG. 231 



currant and hop, and is said to eat the leaves of gooseberry 

 also. The first brood is in June and July, and the second in 

 the autumn. The moth is out in May and June and in August. 

 It frequents gardens, and hides among the foliage, or occasion- 

 ally sits on walls or palings ; from hedges where the wild hop 

 grows freely it may be beaten out in the daytime, but it flies in 

 the twilight, sometimes in numbers, around the hop t>ines. 



Widely distributed over England, Wales, and Scotland up to 

 Ross; in Ireland it has been noted from Tyrone, Dublin, Cork, 

 Galway, and Sligo. 



Wormwood Pug {Enpitheda absinthiata). 



The fore wings are reddish or purplish bro^vn ; cross lines 

 indistinct, but represented on the front edge by black marks ; 

 discal dot black, submarginal line whitish interrupted, often in- 

 distinct, except above the inner margin (Plate 95, Figs. 3, 6, 10). 

 The short, stout, and roughened caterpillar varies in colour, 

 and may be yellowish green, deep rose colour, or dirty reddish 

 brown ; a series of lozenge-shaped reddish spots on the back, 

 faint towards each end (often absent in green forms) ; oblique 

 yellow stripes on the sides form borders to the marks on the 

 back (adapted from Crewe). It feeds, in the autumn, on the 

 flowers of ragwort, golden rod, aster, yarrow, hemp agrimony, 

 etc. The moth is out in June and July. 



The species is generally common in the south of England, 

 and is widely distributed over the rest of that country, Wales, 

 and Ireland. In Scotland its range extends to Moray. 



Abroad, the distribution spreads to Amurland. 



Ling Pug {Eupithecia goosse?isiata). 



The fore wings are rather narrower and more pointed at the 

 tips than those of the last species ; the ground colour of the 

 fore wings is of a paler reddish brown, and frequently tinged 



