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It feeds on the privet and a great variety of trees, 
shrubs, plants, and flowers. 
The chrysalis is enclosed in an earthen cocoon. It 
is of a reddish or greenish-yellow colour, the thorax 
and wing-covers yellow, the latter tinted with green. 
EUPITHECIA VIRGAUREARIA. 
LONG-WINGED PUG. 
Plate XXIX. Figure 24. 
This insect measures from three quarters of an inch 
to nearly an inch in expanse. 
Male: fore wings grey, with numerous darker lines 
across ; the third line is whitish, with two distinct white 
spots, one below the middle, the other at the lower corner. 
Hind wings similarly marked with white. The middle 
of the thorax and the end of the body also white. 
Localities for this species are Epping and Ipswich. 
The situations where it is found are woods and gardens. 
The perfect insect appears in May and the beginning 
of Jane. 
The caterpillar is of a yellowish colour, with a series of 
black angular-shaped spots along the back, confluent 
towards the head, and indistinct on the hind segment, 
below it, on the sides, is a row of slanting whitish or 
yellowish stripes. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the golden rod (Solidago virgaurea ), 
the ragwort (Senecio jacobcea ), and the fleawort 
(Cineraria palustris). 
