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EUPITHECIA VULGAEIA. 
COMMON PUG. 
Plate XXX. Figure 6. 
This insect measures rather above three quarters of an 
inch in width. 
Male : fore wings pale reddish-brown, with numerous 
darker lines across ; third line whitish, at the lower corner 
white; central spot black. 
Localities for this species are York, Glasgow, Scar¬ 
borough, Darlington, Faversham, Edinburgh, Lower 
Guiting, Birkenhead, Whittingham, Barnstaple, Lewes, 
Newnham, Stowmarket, Hewcastle-on-Tyne, Tenterden, 
Exeter, Hal ton, Worthing, Kingsbury, Brighton. 
The situations where it is found are hedges, &c. 
The perfect insect appears in May and June. 
The caterpillar is reddish-brown or dull olive studded 
over with minute white raised spots, with a row of dusky 
greenish angular-shaped spots along the back, confluent 
at the head and the tail, the line on the sides waved and 
yellowish, occasionally interrupted with black. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in July. 
It feeds on the whitethorn. 
The chrysalis is enclosed in a cocoon of earth. It is 
reddish, the head, thorax, and wing-cases olive. 
EUPITHECIA EXPALLIDARIA. 
Plate XXX. Figure 7. 
This insect measures three quarters of an inch or 
rather more in expanse. 
Male : fore wings pale brownish-grey, rather darker at 
the inner corner. The first line is only visible on the 
