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EUPITHECIA VULGARIA. 



COMMON PUG. 

 Plate XXX. Figure 6. 



THIS insect measures rather above three quarters of an 

 inch! in width. 



Male: fore wings pale reddish-brown, with numerous 

 darker lines across; third line whitish, at the lower corner 

 white; central spot black. 



Localities for this species are York, Glasgow, Scar- 

 borough, Darlington, Faversham, Edinburgh, Lower 

 Guiting, Birkenhead, Whittingham, Barnstaple, Lewes, 

 Newnham, Stowmarket, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Tenterden, 

 Exeter, Halton, Worthing, Kingsbury, Brighton. 



The situations where it is found are hedges, &c. 



The perfect insect appears in May and June. 



The caterpillar is reddish-brown or dull olive studded 

 over with minute white raised spots, with a row of dusky 

 greenish angular-shaped spots along the back, confluent 

 at the head and the tail, the line on the sides waved and 

 yellowish, occasionally interrupted with black. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in July. 



It feeds on the whitethorn. 



The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon of earth. It is 

 reddish, the head, thorax, and wing-cases olive. 



EUPITHECIA EXPALLIDARIA. 



Plate XXX. Figure 7. 



THIS insect measures three quarters of an inch or 

 rather more in expanse. 



Male : fore wings pale brownish-grey, rather darker at 

 the inner corner. The first line is only visible on the 



