134 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
the apparent want of courtesy, accept this 
in lieu, and assign the true reason, — viz. 
exhaustion of stock and excessive labour 
involved in replying to each. — J. Birrs, 
York; July 13. 
OBSERVATIONS ON EUPITHECIAi. 
BY MR. GREGSON. 
Linariata. Now appearing where its 
food grows: it feeds upon the flowers and 
seeds of the common toad-flax in August 
and September. 
Rectangularia is still out in orchards. 
Tenuiata is also out now ; the sooner 
they are looked after the better. This 
queer larva was first bred by Mr. Diggles 
at Birkenhead, but the public are in- 
debted to Mr. Doubleday for the informa- 
tion that it fed upon sallow catkins. If 
we are to be guided by the form of the 
larv®, then I do not know where to place 
this species : it is almost like a butterfly 
larva. 
Regrandaria is now in its prime 
amongst Myrica Gale on the mosses. 
Pyymaata is also out just now. I took 
it on “ Conistone Old Man,” a short time 
since, where it was getting wasted ; on 
the wood-sides, near our Mosses, it is 
always a July insect. Whether it is a 
Pug or not I am not so sure! It flies 
by day, spinning along like E. octo- 
maeulalis. 
Salyrata. This species is also in its 
prime now. Last year I bred many fine 
specimens from larvae collected in Sim- 
mond’s Wood, on various plants; I had 
bred it before from Scabiosa suecisa ; this 
plant produced the variety Cinereala, 
Curtis. I also bred it from larva; col- 
lected by Mr. Greening upon heath 
flowers. 
Nanata. The most variable, the most 
abundant, and perhaps the handsomest 
Pug we have, both in the larva and per- 
iod state, occurring wherever the common 
heath grows, and remaining out fine until 
the end of August. Who can describe 
the colours of this larva P Pink in one 
district, red in another, brown here, green 
of various shades there, but always the 
same markings, and always to be found 
with its head in the flowers of Calluna 
vulgaris in autumn. 
Absynthiata of Doubleday’s Catalogue. 
This species is now appearing where 
Senecio Jacobcea is plentiful; its larva, 
which it would puzzle a Philadelphia 
lawyer to describe (as there are no two 
alike) is as variable in colour as it well 
can be ; it belongs to the short stout 
group of larvae, and feeds upon the flowers 
and seeds of S, Jacobcea , in August and 
September. My idea of Absynthiata is 
a larger species, which feeds upon 
mugwort - leaves, the larva; of which 
belong to the same group as Succen- 
turiala. 
Minutata is also now appearing on 
heaths; its stout larvae ( always pink) may 
be collected freely on the Lancashire 
Mosses, where C. vulgaris grows ; it feeds 
upon the flowers. The perfect insect may 
be separated from the above by the peach- 
like bloom which is always upon good 
specimens. 
Expallidala. This fine species is now 
on the wing at Bennartli Wood, Conway, 
where it was first discovered by Mr. Lang- 
cake and Mr. Carter. I took some un- 
known larvae there in October, three years 
ago, which I expected to produce this 
species ; they did not spin up ; they were 
upon the devil’s-bit scabious, but sickly. 
July is the great month for Eupithecicc. 
Succenluriata and its varieties are now in 
their glory in lanes and waste places, on 
the wing at dusk and on sugar late at 
night. I have taken them freely from 
midnight to 2 a.m., when hunting for 
Agxotis Askworthii at Llauferras. This 
species is not particular in its food when 
first hatched, but seems to attach itself to 
the plant it first cats for life. The speci- 
mens fed upon yarrow arc generally 
