30 EUPITflECIA LARIOIATA. 



colour ; segmental divisions yellowish ; belly whitish, 

 with a dark green central line. A long and rather 

 slender larva, tapering towards the head. It resem- 

 bles in general appearance the larva of Eupithecia 

 fraxlnata Crewe. 



Yar. 2. Ground colour yellowish-red or reddish- 

 buff ; central dorsal line brownish-olive, occasionally 

 very faint ; anal tip of central dorsal line reddish ; 

 spiracular line pale greenish-yellow; belly whitish, 

 with a dusky central and two broad lateral lines. In 

 general appearance it much resembles the larva of 

 Eupithecia indigata Hubu. 



Feeds on larch and spruce fir. Full-fed at the end 

 of Julv. 



Pupa enclosed in a slight earthen cocoon, rather 

 long and slender ; thorax yellowish-olive ; wing-cases 

 deep green ; abdomen yellowish-green, tinged with 

 red; abdominal divisions and tip red. (H. Harpur- 

 Crewe, 11th October, 1864; E.M.M., November, 

 1864, I, 141.) 



ECPITHECIA IRRIGUATA. 



Plate OXXXII, fig. 4. 



Received 22nd June, 1870, from Mr. Thomas 

 Hutchinson, who beat it from either oak or beech, 

 both trees interlacing their foliage. 



The larva when full-fed is barely three-quarters of 

 an inch long, green, with the head dull purplish brown- 

 red. A series of dull crimson or purplish red-brown 

 dorsal marks at the segmental divisions, and a faint 

 blush on the middle of each segment, as though these 

 marks formed part of dorsal diamonds which had 

 become obsolete or almost vanished except at the 

 beginning and end of each segment ; and at these parts 

 are bordered with paler yellowish-green than the full 

 green ground colour. The dorsal line on the thoracic 

 segments is pale yellowish-green, bordered by purplish 



