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EUP1THECIA VEXOSARIA. 



NETTED PUG. 

 Plate XXIX. Figure 9. 



THIS insect measures from rather above three quarters 

 of an inch to one inch in expanse. 



Male: fore wings dull yellowish grey, crossed by two 

 waved whitish bands, four black lines, and several shorter 

 ones, forming a kind of network, whence the trivial name. 



Localities for this species are York, Huddersneld, 

 Brighton, Cambridge, Lewes, Worthing, Darenth Wood, 

 Bristol, Halton, Darlington, Newnham, Stowmarket, Hale 

 near Liverpool, and Sudbury in Derbyshire. 



The perfect insect appears in May and June. 



The caterpillar, blackish in its first stage, is afterwards 

 dull bluish-grey on the back, studded with minute white 

 spots, the sides dull greenish-white. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 

 July. 



It feeds on the seeds of the bladder campion (Silene 

 inflataj, and the red campion {Lychnis diurna). 



The chrysalis is bright red. It is enclosed in a slight 

 cocoon. 



EUPITHECIA CONSIGNARIA. 

 PINION-SPOTTED PUG. 

 Plate XXIX. Figure 10. 



THIS insect measures rather above three quarters of an 

 inch in expanse. 



