Localities for this species are York, Scarborough, Worth- 
ing, Birkenhead, Lewes, Lyndhurst, Dulwich, Cambridge, 
Manchester, Lewisham, Darlington, Neweastle-ou-Tyne, 
Torwood, Exeter, Pembury, Kingsbury, Stowmarket. 
The perfect insect appears at the end of April and in 
May. May 1, May 2. 
The caterpillar is pale yellowish-red, with a pale olive 
line along the back, and a series of pale olive angular 
marks, sometimes bordered with yellow and frequently run 
together in abroad line, the sideline yellowish, the divisions 
between the segments red; underneath is sometimes a 
yellowish line. 
The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in June 
and July. 
It feeds on the oak. 
The chrysalis is enclosed in a slight cocoon of earth ; it 
is bright red, the thorax and wing cases paler, the divisions 
on the body, and the tip, deep red. 
EUPITHECIA EXIGUARIA. 
BARBERRY PUG. 
Plate XXX. Figure 15. 
This insect measures from rather more than three 
quarters of an inch to nearly an inch in width. 
Male: fore wings dull yellowish-grey, crossed by 
numerous waved lines, the ground colour forming a pale 
broad central band, divided by two short black lines, and 
beyond it is a narrow band; third line rather indistinct; 
central spot grey. 
Localities for this species are York, Both well, Newcastle- 
on-Tyne, Cambridge, Hal ton, Stowmarket, Lower Guiting, 
