It feeds, as variable in its food as in its markings, on the 

 ragwort (Scnccio jarobeed), the yarrow (Achillcea mille- 

 foliuni), the hoary ragwort (Senecio crucifolius) , the 

 golden rod (Solidago virgaurea), the hemp agrimony 

 (Eupatorium cannabinurn), the common burnet saxi- 

 frage (Pimpinella saxifraga), the greater burnet saxi- 

 frage (Pimpinella magna), the groundsel (Senecio vul- 

 garis), the black knapweed (Oentaurea nigra), the 

 meadow pepper-saxifrage (Silans patensis}, the clustered 

 bellflower (Campanula glomerata), the small scabious 

 (Scabiosa columbaria). 



The chrysalis is pale red, and is inclosed in a cocoon 

 of earth. 



EUPITHECIA SUCCENTAUREARIA. 



BORDERED LIME-SPECKED PUG. 



Plate XXIX. Figure 14. 



THIS insect measures from a little over three quarters 

 of an inch to an inch in expanse. 



Male : fore wings whitish, the upper margin and outer 

 margin grey, sometimes tawny, with the upper margin 

 and outer margin brownish-grey; or, again, greyish- 

 brown, with several transverse waved lines; the second 

 line crossed by a tawny blot; central spot round and 

 black. 



Localities for this species are York, Ardrossan, Isle 

 of "Wight, Edinburgh, Darlington, Scarborough, Lower 

 Guiting, Bognor, Exeter, Cambridge, Ipswich, Bristol, 

 Wavendon, Sanderstead, Kingsbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 Manchester, Marlow, Lewisham, Birkenhead, Barn- 



