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BEITISH MOTHS. 



one interrupted, and sometimes enlarged into 

 a chain of lozenge-shaped spots ; the two side 

 ones very indistinct ; the body, when closely 

 examined, is very slightly hairy. 



" Var. 2. Ground colour uniform sea- 

 green. The dorsal lines and spots wholly or 

 almost entirely wanting. 



" Var. 3. Ground colour greenish yellow, 

 with a series of rusty lozenge-shaped dorsal 

 spots or bars ; the sides and belly are, more 

 or less, suffused with rust-colour; the seg- 

 mental divisions bright yellow. 



" Var. 4. Ground colour bright yellow, 

 with a series of broad dull red dorsal bars, in- 

 tersected and bordered by lines of the same 

 colour ; the sides and belly are thickly clouded 

 with red. This caterpillar is somewhat dif- 

 ferent in gait and shape from those of all the 

 other Eupithecice, and resembles that oiHyber- 

 nia ruplcapraria. Its favourite food is the 

 petals of the traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba), 

 from which plant it may be beaten in some 

 plenty from the middle of July to the middle 

 of August. I have also beaten it from the 

 flowers of the hemp agrimony (Eupntorium 

 cannabinurri), the golden rod (Solidago vir- 

 gaurea), and the wild angelica (Angelica 

 sylvestris). The CHRYSALIS, which is enclosed 

 in a rather closely-spun earthen cocoon, has 

 the body very much curtailed, and sharply 

 pointed ; the eyes black and very prominent ; 

 the thorax and wing-cases spotted with black, 

 the latter much ribbed ; the spots do not 

 appear for a week or two after the caterpillar 

 has turned, and until then the chrysalis is of 

 a uniform pale yellowish red colour." 



The MOTH appears on the wing in April and 

 May, and a second brood appears in August ; 

 it occurs in many of our English counties, 

 and also in the counties Dublin and Wick- 

 low, in Ireland. (The scientific name is 

 Eupithecia coronata.) 



301. THE GREEN PUG. The fore wings 

 are green, with a transverse elongate discoidal 

 black spot, and numerous transverse waved 

 black linear markings; there is usually a broad 

 darker band across the middle of the wing, 

 bordered on both sides by one of the black 

 linear markings, and there is a pale, almost 



white, transverse waved line within, and 

 parallel to, the hind margin ; the hind wings 

 are green, very distinctly marked with trans- 

 verse black lines, one of which, crossing the 

 middle of the wings, has a V-shaped angle 

 pointed towards the hind margin ; the head, 

 thorax, and body are greenish ; tne body 

 having a blackish belt near the base, and 

 many other black markings. 



Mr. Crewe describes the CATERPILLAR as 

 under : 



" Short, thick, and stumpy ; ground colour 

 very pale yellowish green, darker when young; 

 central dorsal line varying very much in 

 breadth and intensity of colouring, sometimes 

 rusty-red, sometimes dark green, frequently 

 very indistinct, and sometimes wanting alto- 

 gether; segmental divisions reddish; spiracular 

 lines rather darker than the ground colour. 

 Whole body very transparent ; the circulation 

 is very visible under the central dorsal line ; 

 the back is sprinkled with a few very short 

 hairs ; the dorsal stripe, when young, is broad, 

 distinct, and rusty-red. It feeds, in April and 

 May, on the blossoms of apple and wild crab, 

 and is full-fed the middle of the latter month. 

 I noticed that those which fed upon the wild 

 crab were much brighter and darker coloured 

 than those which fed upon the blossoms in the 

 gardens. The CHRYSALIS is enclosed in a 

 slight earthen cocoon ; its thorax and wing- 

 cases are yellow, suffused with olive ; its 

 body tapering ; the lower divisions and tip 

 blood-red. It remains in the chrysalis state 

 about a fortnight." 



The insect is excessively abundant in the 

 apple and pear orchards in the south of 

 France, as discovered and described by M. 

 Guenee. It is well known to farmers and 

 gardeners that out of every bunch of ten or 

 a dozen blossoms, since two or three only 

 expand their petals and drop them at the 

 proper time, the others often retain their 

 petals, even although fully developed, in an 

 arched or globular form over the young fruit, 

 and from being of a pure white colour in the 

 case of pears, or a lively pink in that of 

 apples, will become brown, and lose all their 

 vitality. The caterpillar of the Green Pug 



