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this is a somewhat different resting posture from that assumed by the 
rest of the Eupithecias, the forewings being somewhat thrown back 
over the hindwings, more as in so many of the “ Carpets,” instead of 
being placed forward, and exposing the hindwings in the characteristic 
“Pug” attitude, liectanr/idata on the other hand, has always struck 
me as being perfectly typical in these respects. 
2. The larva, the Rev. H. Harper Crewe says, is “ somewhat 
different in gait and shape from those of all the other Eupitheciae, and 
resembles that of Hibernia rupicapraria.” The difference has not 
struck me as very marked, but I am not nearly so great an authority 
on Pug larvfe as Mr. Crewe, and have no doubt he is quite right. 
8. <'omnata, unlike the other green species, passes the winter in 
the pupal state or at any rate within the pupal shell. This alone would 
not amount to much, as some very close allies are differentiated largely 
by the hibernating period— -e.i/., Cularia tnmcata and immanata ; nor 
docs it serve to separate corunciia from the bulk of the genus. But it 
is certainly worthy of mention, as there are very many genera in which 
the hibernating stage is constant throughout. 
I should like to call attention also to the peculiar pale discoloured- 
looking patch which is liable to occur at the inner angle and along a 
good part of the inner margin of conmata ; I have never seen any 
tendency corresponding with this in its supposed allies. It is not 
nearly so variable a species as are they both, indeed I should consider 
it a very constant one except in size, though some specimens are 
rather more strongly dark-marked than others. It seems a rather 
active little species, and most of the specimens I have beaten by day 
have been in a highly disreputable condition ; I have occasionally picked 
up good ones, presumably recently-emerged, on tree-trunks, palings 
and walls. 
The larva, as Crewe has said, is extremely variable in colour, and 
I am only just learning to recognise it. It seems to be a very general 
feeder, though there is little doubt that Clemati* vitalba is its most 
favoured pabulum. In addition, Crewe gives Eupatorinm, Solid atpt 
and AiKjelica, of which I have personally verified the first-named ; it 
occurs regularly on Eupatorinm in one spot at Sandown, though 
rather sparingly. I can add one or two other food-plants from 
personal knowledge, besides the Atriplex given by Merian (Der liapseii 
JJei/in, published about 1G78). A larva found feeding on bramble 
flowers on August 12th, 1897, yielded a specimen of this species on 
April 28th, 1898 ; and, more curiously, I beat a larva from hawthorn, 
on which there were certainly no flowers, and I think no fruit, on 
August 20th, 1890, and fed it up on hawthorn leaves, obtaining a 
crippled imago on May 2nd, 1891. I also once beat a larva which I 
believed was this species from sallow ; but I failed to rear it, and as it 
was several years ago I may have been mistaken as to its identity. 
Enpithccia coronata has regularly at least two broods in the year, 
one in April and May and another in July and August; but one not 
infrequently gets a partial third emergence in September and October. 
I am almost certain that those which hibernate in tbe pupal shell do 
so fully developed like the Tauiiocampids; but such a large number 
of those which develop in the autumn turn out to be dead by the 
spring, that it may possibly only be these which have misled me, and 
I should be glad to have the question more fully investigated. The 
