22 EUPITHECIA CENTAUREATA. 



BUPITHECIA CENTAUREATA. 



Plate CXXX, fig. 1. 



A geometer larva nearly three-quarters of an inch 

 long, slender and nearly uniform in substance ; the 

 head rather smaller than the second segment, which 

 is a trifle less than the third ; the head rather bent 

 downwards as in Lobophora viretata, and the front legs 

 drawn together when at rest, straight and stick-like. 

 On the anal tip below the flap are two anal very blunt 

 points or projections ; the segments are deeply wrin- 

 kled, marking each into three portions, the middle one 

 being the largest, and other usual two or three 

 wrinkles in the third portion. In colour the head is 

 ochreous, the second segment greenish-ochreous, the 

 rest of the body yellow-green with deep bright yellow 

 folds of skin at the segmental divisions ; a dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines of darker green ; the spiracles reddish 

 flesh-colour. 



The larva came from Mr. C. G. Barrett, of Pem- 

 broke, 19th August, 1878. (William Buckler, August, 

 1878 ; Note Book III, 252.) 



EdPITHECIA SUCCENTURIATA. 



Plate CXXX, fig. 2. 



On the 28th of September, 1883, came from the 

 Rev. John Hellins as many as thirty larvae of this 

 good species, all very young and many very little, but 

 they all fed well, not at all on blossoms or seeds, but 

 only on the leaves by eating away the upper green 

 skin, so that the fresh gathered leaves of their food- 

 plant, Artemisia vulgaris, appear very soon to be 

 covered with white traces, where in little patches the 

 green has been nibbled away. They ate some amount 



