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Cloaked Pug {Eucymatoge togata). 



Over sixty years ago, this fine pug (Plate 99, Figs. 11 and 12) 

 was detected in England. It was first noted in a plantation 

 of spruce fir at Black Park, Buckinghamshire, in mid-June, 

 1815, and for many years this was the only known British 

 locahty. At the present time it is obtained more or less 

 regularly in the New Forest, and has been recorded, chiefly in 

 single specimens, from Wiltshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, 

 Suffolk, Yorkshire, and Durham. It is not uncommon in 

 Scotland up to Inverness, but is most plentiful in Perthshire. 



Kane {Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland) states that 

 it is spreading over an extensive area in Ireland, as a result of 

 the planting of spruce fir. 



The caterpillar, which feeds in the spruce cones, and eats 

 the immature seeds, is dingy white with a pinkish tinge, 

 and suffused with blackish above ; the hnes along the back and 

 sides, when present, are whitish but not distinct ; head, and 

 raised dots on the body, black ; a brown plate on the first 

 ring : July and August. Cones containing caterpillars may be 

 secured by visiting a known locality for the species towards the 

 end of August, especially immediately after a gale. 



The moth may be dislodged from its resting place among 

 the branches of the spruce in June, sometimes earlier or 

 later. 



Y-Pug {Chlorodjstis coronafa). 



This is ''^ Phal<zna''' v-ata, Haworth, and also the V-Pug of 

 that author. A later EngHsh name for the species is "The 

 Coronet Pug," an Anglicism for the Latin specific name, and 

 has reference to the black upper part of the outer cross line 

 which is twice ansrled and bears a fanciful resemblance to a 



