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EUPITHECIA TRIPUNCTARIA. 
Plate XXX. Figure 22. 
This insect expands to the width of one inch in fine 
specimens. 
Male: fore wings dark grey, with lighter transverse 
shades; a very distinct though interrupted white line on 
the hind margin; in the lower corner is a large triangular 
white spot. Central spotblack, small,but distinct. Hind 
wings paler grey, lighter near the body; central spot plain. 
A distinct white spot in the lower comer; nerves powdered 
with white. There is also a distinct white spot at the 
juncture of the thorax and the body. 
Localities for this species are various parts of Suffolk, 
Hertfordshire, and Derbyshire. 
The situations where it is found are woods in damp, 
shady places. 
The perfect insect appears in June. 
The caterpillar is pale yellow, more or less suffused with 
rich brown. Along the back, which is greenish-yellow, is 
a series of deep brown spots bordered on each side by a 
slender line of the same colour, and below it a row of 
slanting bright yellow stripes and deep brown blots. 
Underneath, greenish-yellow. Central line deep brown; 
on each side of it a much broader one of the same colour. 
A variety has the ground colour yellowish-green, studded 
with minute white raised spots, with a line along the back 
of dusky brown spots connected by a central line of the 
same colour, fading off on the hiud segments, and conflu¬ 
ent on the front ones; on each side is a series of dusky 
blots. Central line beneath dusky, but interrupted. In 
another, the line along the back, and that on each side of 
