AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. " 61 



Species 11. — Eupithecia l^vigata'' — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 10) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; 

 wings ashy-brown, clouded, and streaked with white, brown, and black lineolK, which are often acute, one or two 

 angulated black striga placed before the ordinary central dark dot ; which is followed by a pectinated striga, 

 somewhat interrupted, and a whitish, subapical, undulated striga. The caterpillar is rather slender, naked, ^.i^'V»^- 

 green, with a darker line down the back, and two white lateral streaks ; the sides of the head and terminal 

 segment of the body reddish. It feeds on the common juniper, and the moth appears at the beginning of 

 August. Taken in Norfolk and Kent, but not common. 



1 Synonyme. — PhaltBna IcBvigata^ Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 658. 



Species 12. — EnpiXHECiA exiguata"" — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 11) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse; 

 wings whitish-gray, or luteous-ochre, clouded with brown, the ordinary strigse being almost obliterated, with 

 the ordinary black dot in the middle of the wing, beyond which is a straight pectinated striga, formed of acute 

 lineolse ; between which and the apical margin is a fascia, formed of three brown, transverse, exactly trapeziform 

 spots ; hind wings brownish, with the anal angle ashy, and a central dark dot. The caterpillar is dull green, 

 with a reddish stripe down the back and pale lines on the sides. It feeds on the common barberry, and the moth 

 is taken in June, in woods and hedges. 



' Synonymes. — Geomeira exiguata^ Hiibner ; Stephens ; Wood, I Phaitena trimaculata, Haworth (variety), 

 fig. 659. I Eupilhecia ochreata, Stephens (variety). 



Species 13. — Eupithecia abbreviata^ — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 12) — Measures 9 lines in expanse, and has the 

 wings whitish, clouded with ashy, and with various brownish strigae, and four black lineolae : one (being the 

 ordinary dot attenuated) on the disc, another more elongated at the base, and two between the middle and 

 hinder margin of the wing ; the striga beyond the central dot is much incurved next the costa ; there is also a 

 pale subapical striga. Taken in various places in June, but widely dispersed and rare. 



' Synonyme. — Geomeira abbreviata^ HUbner ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 660. 



Species 14. — Eupithecia singulariata' — Measures 11 lines in expanse ; wings ashy-gray, somewhat 

 clouded, and obsoletely waved, all bearing a conspicuous black dot near the centre, and an interrupted marginal 

 black line ; hind wings ashy, with a brown margin, bearing an evanescent, whitish, undulated striga. Darenth r J^ 

 Wood, June. Very similar to the two next species. 



* Synonyme. — Phal<Bna Geometra singulariata, Villers ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 661. 



Species 15. — Eupithecia nebulata" — Plate LXIX., Fig. 13) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; all the 

 wings gray, slightly clouded with black, forming strigse ; the fore ones narrowed, and with a central black dot, 

 nearly evanescent ; the disc more or less tinged with reddish ; the apical margin with an indistinct, pale, waved A,, lu. 24:- 

 striga ; hind wings ashy, with two evanescent striga, formed of black lineolte. Taken in woods, in June. 



" Synonyme. — Phalcena nebulata, Haworth ; Stephens. 



Species 16. — Eupithecia albipunctata " — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 14) — Measures from 10 to 12 lines in 



expanse ; wings brown, obsoletely clouded with white ; the fore ones with the ordinary black dot in the middle, 



and a common striga near the apical margin of all the wings, scarcely undulated and formed of white dots, and 



with a white spot on the costa, preceding the striga ; hind wings brown, with a subapical striga. Taken in 



woods, in June. 



' Synonyme—— PAa/isna albipunctata, Haworth ; Stephens. 



Species 17. — Eupithecia subumbrata" — (Plate LXIX., Fig. 15) — Measures 7 or 8 lines in expanse; f*i.i tlEittZk. 

 wings gray or gray-brown, with various acute- shaped, dark clouds, more disposed into strigse than in the last ^i>. ?- 



