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darker brown markings, and below the two outer marks a 
large, dark, oval spot, placed rather high up, beyond which 
is a very faint indication (often invisible) of a whitish spotted 
line, terminated by a twin-spot near the anal angle, and 
edged with dark brown; wing-rays dark and well defined; 
abdomen smooth ;- hind wings large, dark cold-brown, having 
a marginal line of long dark streaks, terminated with a 
distinct light anal spot. 
Larva:—Form, when young, slender, cylindrical; when 
older, rather stout, attenuated to both extremities, much 
appressed in. the central segments, and somewhat rugose. 
Colour, from French-white, pale straw-colour, ashy gray, to 
light pea-greens and faint purplish peachy browns, and dirty 
dim colours of various shades. With numerous specimens 
before me, no two are alike, but shade away in every direction 
from the above colours: a pale pea-green ground predomi- 
nates, dark ashy grays are plentiful, and a few with light 
purplish pink grounds may be seen, while in some the 
ground colour is reddish brown of various shades ; altogether 
they are not elegant or attractive in their variations, and only 
a few of the varieties could be called pretty. Size, three- 
fourths to seven-eighths of an inch. Head horn-like, very 
small, ornamented with various marks and shadings; corslet 
small and dull, distinctly striate. On the central segment 
there is a well-defined, spade-shaped dark mark, pointing 
forwards, through which the light dorsal streak is often con- 
spicuous; this mark appears as a broad-arrow head, in some 
positions edged with a light, rough, raised line, which passes 
down slantingly to the spiracular region through the subdorsal 
line, which is often well defined. In this species the central 
markings are lost on the anterior and anal segments, merging 
into the ground colour, as they usually do in other closely- 
allied species of this group of the genus Eupithecia, as at 
present constituted. Spiracular line wavy and well defined ; 
spiracles dark, with a distinct light ring round each; under 
side light, and generally inclined to ashy green; feet light, 
horn-like. General appearance rather coarse, rough, and 
somewhat hairy. Not so stout as the larve of E. absynthiata 
or Minutata, and larger than the heath-feeder relatively. 
Whilst some remind you of Expallidata larva, others recall 
those of Succenturiata;-but we see the subdorsal line in 
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