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sun. The Rev. H. Harper Crewe says in Buckinghamshire 

 this species only occurs in open spaces between Beech woods 

 (see Newman's note under Subumhrata). This is certainly not 

 the case here. 



110. E. castigata, Haw. Gray Pug. 



Eupithecia castigata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 86. 

 ,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 127. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 190. 



Lakva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxi., fig. 5 ; O.Wils., pi. xxv., 



fig. 1. 



Rather a common sj)ecies, and no doubt occurring regularly 



at most places. Mr. Finlay found it generally distributed and 



not scarce in all suitable localities in his district; Mr. Patterson 



got it about Newcastle. It is recorded in the ''Manual" for 



Darlington, near which town Mr. Sang took it on 22nd June, 



1864. We get it commonly on the coast northward from Black 



Halls. Mr. Gardner writes — "a black variety is of common 



occurrence. When bred, if the insect emerge quite black and 



without markings, it remains black; but if markings, however 



faint, are perceptible under the black shade, the black will 



gradually fade, and eventually leave a typical, though rather 



dark specimen." This is a very interesting observation. I 



have taken a perfectly black insect believed to be this species 



flying in the morning sun. 



111. E. lariciata, Frr. Larch Pug. 



Eupithecia lariciata. Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 129. 

 Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 191. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. oxxxv., fig. 1; O.Wils., pi. xxiv., 



fig. 9 



This species was not known as British till after the publica- 

 tion of the ''Manual." I believe the first to take it was 

 Mr. E. Hopley, who met with it in Surrey in 1864 or 1865, 

 and sent fertile ova to the Rev. H. Harper Crewe, who reared 

 the larvae on Larch and Spruce fir. It is not easy to explain why 



