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with a series of large dull olive or reddish-brown spots or 
marks on the back, on each side of which is a dusky olive 
line; the head nearly black. The spots on the back are 
often indistinct and sometimes wholly wanting. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the seeds of the yellow toad-flax (Linaria 
vulgaris). 
The chrysalis is reddish-yellow, the tail deep red, the 
thorax and wing-cases olive. It is enclosed in a cocoon 
of earth. 
EUPITHECIA PULCHELLARl A 
PRETTY PUG. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 12. 
This insect measures rather over three quarters of an 
inch in expanse. 
Male: fore wings pale dull yellowish, with a dull greyish 
tawny band near the inner corner, and another towards 
the outer margin ; third line dull yellowish-white but 
very indistinct; central band grey, edged on each side 
with whitish and crossed by a waved whitish line; centre 
spot black. 
Localities for this species are Harrogate, Scarborough, 
Lewisham, Huddersfield, Edinburgh, Exeter, Worcester, 
Manchester, Lvndhurst, Dunoon,Tenterden,Birkenhead, 
Brighton. 
The perfect insect appears in May. 
