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EUPITHECIA CENTAUREATA. 
LIME-SPECKED PUG. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 13. 
This insect measures from a little under an inch to an 
inch in expanse. 
Male: fore wings white,clouded with pale grey towards 
the outer margin ; first line grey and waved but rather 
indistinct; second line also indistinct, waved and grey ; 
central spot black and curved, and between it and the 
upper margin is a grey blot. 
Localities for this species are Scarborough, Glasgow, 
Bromsgrove, Ardrossan, Stowmarket, Pembury, Exeter, 
Edinburgh, Kingsbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Birkenhead, 
Lewes, Brighton, New Brighton, Bristol, Halton, West 
Looe, Manchester, Worcester, Cambridge, Newnham, 
Ipswich. 
The situations where it is found are hedgerows and 
woods. 
The perfect insect appears in May, June, July, and 
August. 
The caterpillar is very variable, either bright yellowish 
or bluish-green, with many spots and lines of a darker 
shade on the back and below it, often making a series 
of spots ; or plain yellowish or bluish-green or greenish 
or pink-white, with a chain of deep red triple spots on 
the back run together towards the head, the lower part 
whitish, with a short red line or spot in the centre of 
several of the segments. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
September. 
