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EUPITHECIA ASSIMILARIA. 
Plate -XXX. Figure 10. 
This insect measures three quarters of an inch or a 
little over in expanse. 
Male: fore wings light blackish-brown; third line 
whitish. 
Localities for this species are Glasgow, Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, Brighton, Lower Guiting, Hal ton, Ipswich, Derby, 
Wallasey near Birkenhead, Liverpool, Edinburgh. 
The situations where it is found are gardens. 
The perfect insect appears in May and June. 
The caterpillar is yellowish-green thickly sprinkled with 
small yellowish-green raised spots, the divisions between 
the segments yellow, a dark green line along the back, 
and one below it, on each side, of dark green, but very 
indistinct. Otherwise, pale green at first, afterwards dull 
yellowish green, a central line on the back and spots, the 
latter merged in the former on the front and hindmost 
segments, the lines on each side of the back dusky, the 
sides tinged with dull reddish brown and crossed by 
several slender lines of the same colour, the head greenish 
marked with black, the body underneath greenish. Another 
is bright green with a row of brown angular-shaped spots 
on the back. Another is pinkish, tinged above and below 
with green, with a dark green line along the back bordered 
by a black dot on each of the middle segments. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in 
September, October, and November. 
It feeds on the black currant, the wild hop (Humulus 
lupulus and also the red currant. 
The chrysalis is placed in an earthen cocoon and is 
yellowish-green in colour. 
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