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It feeds,as variable in its food as in its markings,on the 
ragwort (Senecio jacobcea ), the yarrow (Achillcea mille - 
folium), the hoary ragwort (Senecio crucifolius ), the 
golden rod (S'olidago virgaurea ), the hemp agrimony 
{Eupatorium cannabinum ), the common burnet saxi¬ 
frage (Pimpinella saxifraga ), the greater burnet saxi¬ 
frage (Pimpinella magna ), the groundsel {Senecio vul¬ 
garis)^ the black knapweed {Centaurea nigra), the 
meadow pepper-saxifrage (Silans patensis), the clustered 
bell-flower {Campanula glomerata ), the small scabious 
{Scabiosa columbaria). 
The chrysalis is pale red, and is enclosed in a cocoon 
of earth. 
EUPITHECIA SUCCENTAUREARIA. 
BORDERED LIME-SPECKED PUQ. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 14. 
This insect measures from a little over three quarters 
of an inch to an inch in expanse. 
Male : fore wings whitish, the upper margin and outer 
margin grey, sometimes tawny, with the upper margin 
and outer margin brownish-grey; or, again, greyish- 
brown, with several transverse waved lines ; the second 
line crossed by a tawny blot; central spot round and 
black. 
Localities for this species are York, Ardrossan, Isle 
of Wight, Edinburgh, Darlington, Scarborough, Lower 
Guiting, Bognor, Exeter, Cambridge, Ipswich, Bristol, 
Wavendon, Sanderstead, Kingsbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
Manchester, Marlow, Lewisham, Birkenhead, Barn- 
