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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LXIX. 



Insects. Fie. 1. Eupithecia Linariata (the beautiful pug). 



2. The Caterpillar. 



„ Fig. 3. Eupithecia pulchellata (the pretty pug). 



,, Fig. 4. Eupithecia ret'tangulata (the green pug). 



Fig. 5. Eupithecia nigro-punct.ita (the little pug). 



Fig. 6. Eupithecia nigro-sericcata (the black silk pug). 



,, Fig. 7. Eupithecia coronata (the V pug). 



,, Fig. 8. Eupithecia strobilata (the double-striped pug). 



,, Fig. 9. Eupithecia rufifasciata (the red-harred pug). 



„ Fig. 10. Eupithecia lievigata (the juniper pug). 



,, Fig. 11. Eupithecia exiguata (the barberry pug). 



„ Fig. 12. Eupithecia abbre-snata (the short pug). 



Insects. — Fig. 13. Eupithecia nebulata (the brindled pug). 

 ,, Fig. 14. Eupithecia albipunctata (the speckled pug). 

 ,, Fig. 15. Eupithecia suhumbrata (the stnall-brindled pug). 

 ,, Fig. 16. Eupithecia subfasciata (the subfasciated pug). 

 ,, Fig, 17. Eupithecia vulgata, (the common pug). 

 „ Fig. 18. Eupithecia irriguata (the Welsh pug). 



Plant. — Fig. 19. Linaria vulgaris (common toadflax). 



The insects in this plate are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley, with 

 the exception of L. abbreviata, L. subfasciata, L. irriguata, and L. 

 vulgata, from the collection of J. F. Stephens, Esq. The caterpillar 

 is from Hubner. H. N. H. 



EUPITHECIA, Curtis. LARENTIA, pars, Tkeitschke. 

 These small insects are well distinguished by their long narrow fore wings, extended horizontally in repose, 

 and marked with numerous undulated strigse, and by the smallness of the hind wings (resembling the typical 

 Lobophoree in this respect). The antennas are alike in both sexes ; the palpi porrected like a beak ; the tibiae of 

 the fore feet very short, and the tarsi long and slender. The caterpillars are smooth, cylindrical, slightly 

 elongated. The genus is very numerous. 



Species 1. — Eupithecia linariata*^ — (Plate LXIX., Figs. 1, 2)— Measures 9 or 10 lines in the expanse 

 of the fore wings, which are reddish-white, with the base dark ; a broad waved ashy fascia in the middle, 

 spotted with black, and margined with white, the apical portion spotted with ashy and black, through which 

 runs a white undulated line ; hind wings with numerous ashy strigae ; the subapical one broad, with an undulated 

 whitish line. The caterpillar is yellow or greenish, with dark chesnut spots on the back and sides ; it feeds on 

 the flowers of the common toadflax, and the moth appears in the following June. Taken in various parts of 

 Kent, but rare. 



s Synonyme. — Phaltena linariata, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 64 ; Wood, fig. 649. 



Species 2. — ^Eupithecia pulchellata'' — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 3) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse of 

 the fore wings, which are narrower than in the preceding species, ashy-white, and more thickly clouded and 

 streaked with brown and red, with a broad central ashy bar, deeply angulated towards the costa, and bearing a 

 black dot ; apical portion of the wings clouded with brown, and bearing a white waved striga ; hind wings 

 whitish, with numerous brown strigae, especially on the anal margin ; the base dotted with brown. Taken in 



the woods of Kent and Surrey, in July, but rare. 



^ SvNo>riME. — Eupithecia pulchellata, Stephens ; Wood, fig. 650. 



Species 3. — Eupithecia rectangulata ' — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 4) — Varies from 8 to 10 lines in expanse of 



the fore wings, which are very variable in their markings, being generally green, with strigae and clouds of 



brown, and with three more distinct, rather square, and somewhat confluent, brown patches on the apical 



portion of the wing. In some the wings are dark green, with the costa spotted with black, and with brown 



undulating strigae : others are green, with the dark strigae in the middle of the vnng collected into a broad 



dentated waved fascia across all the wings ; others are luteous gray, clouded with brown, and with a broad 



brown central fascia ; in others the wings are entirely sufiused with black, and in others with brown, with the 



markings almost obsolete. A very common species in gardens, occurring in the month of June. 



■ Synonymes. — Phaltena Geometra rectangulata, Linnaeus; Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood; fig. 651. 



Phaltena viridulata, Hufnagle. 



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