38 EUPJTHECIA INNOTATA. 



an example from Dr. Knaggs many years ago, but 

 Mr. Warren lias now enabled us to add for certain 

 E. innotata to the British list. It may be as well 

 perhaps to add that the moth can scarcely be sepa- 

 rated from E. fraxinata, although the two larva? are 

 distinct enough. (John Hellins, 1st March, 1887; 

 E.M.M., June, 1887, XXIV, 10.) 



[The following description, which seems to be the 

 last ever written by Mr. Buckler, and is simply headed 

 "Fig. 16. 1883. Eupithecia" is referable to these 

 Eupithecia innotata.'] 



In October, 1883, I received two small larvse feed- 

 ing on flowers and seed-vessels, also on the leaflets of 

 Artemisia vulgaris, from the Rev. John Hellins ; the 

 first, excessively small, came on the 28th of Septem- 

 ber, and the second on the 17th of October, scarcely 

 so large as what the first oue had then become. On 

 the 22nd I figured the biggest, which was exactly 

 six lines long, and rather deeply rugose; the head is 

 dark greenish, finely dotted with black, and on the 

 crown the lobes are margined with blackish. The 

 ground colour is at first white, but at the date when 

 figured it was yellowish-white. On the back is a 

 series of dorsal diamonds of black at first, afterwards 

 brownish-black, through which runs a dorsal line of 

 warm greenish-reddish brown; the subdorsal lines 

 are black and conspicuous throughout ; a black spira- 

 cular streak puffed shows plainly the round spiracles 

 of brown colour; the streak turns from black to 

 green by degrees, and then gradually paler. On the 

 dark dorsal diamonds the anterior pair of tubercular 

 warts are brown with short dark bristle ; the poste- 

 rior ones are white warts, being on the white ground 

 outside the diamonds. The markings on the front 

 segments and on the four hinder ones are more linear 

 modifications of the diamond forms, and are far from 

 the black subdorsal lines. The ground of whitish at 

 the posterior end becomes faintly tinged with greyish- 

 green. At the beginning of each segment on the 



