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The chrysalis is enclosed in an earthen cocoon, and has 
the thorax yellowish-green, the wing-cases bright green 
the body reddish yellow, with a dark green line on the 
back. 
EUPITHECIA MINUTARIA. 
Plate XXX. Figure 9. 
This insect measures three quarters of an inch or a 
little over in width. 
Male: fore wings brownish grey, with a very faint tinge 
of reddish. 
Localities for this species are Glasgow, Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, West Wickham, and Prenton near Birkenhead. 
The situations where it is found are heaths. 
The perfect insect appears in June. 
The caterpillar is dull pink or yellowish-red, with a row 
of dusky marks along the back, through which runs a 
pink line, faint on the front segments, and almost invisible 
on the hind ones; each segment on the back studded with 
four yellowish raised spots, the side line yellowish, with 
occasional interruptions of dusky blots ; the back also 
studded with minute white raised spots and a few black 
ones; the head dull olive ; the body underneath dusky 
or pinkish-white. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
August and September. 
It feeds on the flowers of the heath ( Calluna vulgaris ), 
the yarrow (Achillcea millefolium ), and the wild parsley 
(Anthriscus sylvestris). 
The chrysalis is enclosed in an earthen cocoon; the 
body yellow, generally suffused with red, and deep red at 
the tip; the thorax and wing-cases golden yellow. 
