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EUPITHECIA VENOSARIA. 
NETTED PUG. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 9. 
This insect measures from rather above three quarters 
of an inch to one inch in expanse. 
Male: fore wings dull yellowish grey, crossed by two 
waved whitish bands, four black lines, and several shorter 
ones, forming a kind of network, whence the trivial name. 
Localities for this species are York, Huddersfield, 
Brighton, Cambridge, Lewes, Worthing, Darenth Wood, 
Bristol, Halton, Darlington, Newnham, Stowmarket, Hale 
near Liverpool, and Sudbury in Derbyshire. 
The perfect insect appears in May and June. 
The caterpillar, blackish in its first stage, is afterwards 
dull bluish-grey on the back, studded with minute white 
spots, the sides dull greenish-white. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
July. 
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It feeds on the seeds of the bladder campion (Silent 
ivflata ), and the red campion (Lychnis diurna ). 
The chrysalis is bright red. It is enclosed in a slight 
cocoon. 
EUPITHECIA CONSIGNARIA. 
PINION-SPOTTED PUG. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 10. 
This insect measures rather above three quarters of an 
inch in expanse. 
