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Itfeedsonthe blossoms of the common burnet saxifrage 
(.Pimpinella saxifraga). 
The chrysalis is enclosed in an earthen cocoon, it is 
yellowish-green, or otherwise red. 
EUP1THECIA INNOTAKIA. 
UNSPOTTED PUG. 
Plate XXX. Figure 1. 
This insect measures rather above three quarters of 
an inch in expanse. 
Male : fore wings pale brownish-grey, with very indis¬ 
tinct darker lines across, forming a band sharply bent; 
central spot black. 
Localities for this species are Sheffield, Huddersfield, 
Halifax, Hewnham, Hal ton, Edinburgh, Lewes, Ipswich, 
Kingsbury, Dunoon, Cambridge, Darlington, Birkenhead, 
Darenth Wood, Derby. 
The perfect insect appears in June and July. 
The caterpillar is dark green, the central line on the 
back sometimes wanting, and its place supplied by a 
row of dusky angular-shaped markings, on each side of 
it is a row of slanting yellowish stripes tinged with pink, 
there is a yellowish waved line on the sides, between the 
segments it is yellow, and there is a dark purple spot on 
the tail part, underneath it is whitish with a dark green 
line along. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and to the middle of September. 
Itfeeds on the ash, the mugwort ? (.Artemisia vulgaris ), 
and the wormwood ? {Artemisia Absynthium). 
