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126. E. subciliata, Gn. Maple Pug. 



Eupithecia suhciliata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 90. 

 ,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 139. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 193. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxiv., fig. 5. 



This pug is given in the ''Manual" as occurring at 

 Darlington, and the late John Sang took it regularly in several 

 places around that town. I^o one else appears to have met 

 ■with it in either county. The larva feeds on Maple flowers in 

 May. This is considered indigenous in the limestone denes, 

 but no one has met with the insect there. Maple is also grown 

 occasionally in hedges. Perhaps now that attention is called to 

 the species it may be turned up elsewhere. 



127. E. abbreviata, Steph. Brindled Pug. 



Eupithecia abbreviata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 90. 

 „ „ Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 140. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 194. 



Larva. Buck., vol. viii., pi. cxxxv., fig. 3; O.Wils.,pl. xxv., 



fig. 12. 

 Though Abbreviata does not appear to have been met with in 

 Scotland, it occurs in the extreme north of Northumberland, 

 Mr. Bolam having taken it on Kyloe Moor (see Trans. Ber. P. 

 Club, vol. XV., p. 301). It is also in the Twizell list, where 

 very few pugs are recorded. Mr. Pinlay also met with it in 

 Coal Law Wood, though never commonly. !N"ewcastle is given 

 in the Manual as well as Darlington. Mr. Maling took it at 

 Witton-le-Wear in May ; Mr. Gardner took it in Upper Teesdale 

 in 1894, and a single specimen in Hezleden Dene in 1899. 

 The larva feeds on Oak in June, and Mr. Meyrick calls it a 

 common species, which it certainly is not in these counties. 



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