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BRITISH MOTHS. 



297. The Juniper Pug (Eupithecia sobrinata). 



297. THE JUNIPER PUG. The fore wings 

 are rather long and pointed ; they are of a dull 

 brown colour, with numerous darker lines ; 

 the discoidal spot- is dark, but so united with 

 an oblique band of the same colour that it is 

 very inconspicuous ; the wing-rays are con- 

 spicuously variegated with black, and between 

 the sub-costal ray, which is almost entirely 

 black, and the costal margin, are several 

 transverse dark brown spots ; there is the 

 usual slender interrupted black line on the 

 hind margin; the fringe is pale next the 

 margin, then darker, then paler, and then 

 again darker on the extreme outside ; the 

 hind wings are of the same brown tint as 

 the fore wings, and are adorned with several 

 series of black dots, none of which can be 

 properly called lines, from the absence of 

 continuity ; the head, thorax, and body are 

 brown ; the latter has a darker belt neur the 

 base. 



The EGGS are deposited in July, on the 

 twigs of juniper; when first laid they are 

 yellow, but shortly turn to a leaden blue; 

 they do not hatch until the end of January, 

 when the young caterpillars immediately 

 begin feeding on the needles of the juniper. 



Mr. Ore we says this CATEEPILLIK "is rather 

 variable in appearance ; the ground colour is 

 either dark green or yellowish red, with a 

 series of rust-coloured dorsal blotches, inter- 

 sected by a central dorsal dark green hori- 

 zontal line, and bordered on either side by a 

 yellowish one ; these blotches generally dis- 

 appear on the posterior segments, and are 

 sometimes wanting altogether ; the spiracular 

 line is waved, and of a pale yellow or whitish 

 colour ; the belly has a whitish central hori- 

 zontal line. It feeds only on the juniper. I 

 have found it tolerably common on the old 

 trees in gardens and shrubberies in Derby- 

 shire. It is full-fed at the end of May and 

 beginning of June. The CUKYSALIS is enclosed 



in an earthen cocoon or a slight web, amonj 

 the stalks ; its head, thorax, and wing-cases 

 are dark green; its body yellowish." 



The MOTH appears on the wing in Jub 

 and is by no means of uncommon occurrence 

 in England, Scotland, or Ireland. (Tlu 

 scientific name is Eupithecia sobrinata.} 



298. The Cloaked Pug (EupiMecia toyata}. 



298. THE CLOAKED PUG. This is the 

 largest of our English species of Eupithecia, 

 sometimes exceeding an inch in the expam 

 of its spread wings. The colour is pale 

 brown, with a variety of waved transvers 

 lines ; two of the most conspicuous of theg 

 are dark brown, nearly black ; the first com- 

 mences at the costa of the fore wing, at about 

 a third of the distance between its base anc 

 apex ; it is very irregular, and has seven: 

 teeth or projections directed outwards or 

 towards the hind margin ; the second als 

 commences at the costa of the fore wing, am 

 at about two-thirds of the distance betweer 

 its base and apex ; this also is very irregular 

 and has several teeth or projections directet 

 inwards ; this second line is continued througl 

 the centre of the hind wings ; between thes 

 two lines on the fore wings, but much neare 

 to the first or inner one, is a conspicuoi 

 transversely oblong discoidal dark spot ; thei 

 are seven inner marks of the- same darl 

 colour, arranged along the outer margin 

 the fore wings, and six along that of the hinc 

 wings ; midway between the exterior trans 

 verse line and the marginal inner mark, is 

 waved dentated band, extending through botl 

 wings, and this, in the living insect, has 

 beautiful pink tinge ; this however fades afte 

 death ; at the base of the fore wings is 

 short dark brown line, elbowed outwards. 



Several specimens of the MOTH, were take 

 by Mr. Stevens, Mr. Bond, and others, in June 

 1845, at Black Park, in Buckinghamshire. 

 (The scientific name is Eupithecia toyata.} 



