70 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTEUA. 



ingly in size and form, and delicately margined with fulvous : abdomen red, 



more or less transversely streaked with black. 

 Var. iS. Anterior wings deep black, with bright cream-coloured strigae : abdomen 



broadly fasciated with black. 

 Var. y. Anterior wings with the basal half cream-coloured and immaculate, or 



with a few scattered brown spots, the apex as in var. « ; posterior with three 



or four bluish-black spots only. 

 Var. S. Anterior wings cream-colour, with a few scattered brown spots ; cilia 



ochraceous ; posterior rufous, speckled with fulvous, with one small and two 



minute black spots, the latter nearly united, and resembling a colon ; cilia 



yellowish. 

 Var. £. Anterior wings as in var. a. ; posterior and abdomen bright luteous, the 



latter broadly fasciated with black, the former with large bluish-black spots. 

 Var. ?. Anterior wings brown, with pale flesh-coloured strigte. 

 t Var. fi. Anterior wings brown, v/ith the hinder margin and strigge white. 

 Var. 9. Anterior wings brown, Avith interrupted waved white strigce ; posterior 



with the spots united, and forming two transverse bands. 

 Var. I. Anterior wings brown, with dusky strigre, and a few irregular whitish 



spots : posterior blue-black, slightly rufescent on the inner margin. 

 t Var. X. Anterior wings ochraceous, with interrupted whitish strigte ; posterior 



with small black spots. 

 The above are some of the more striking varieties of this protean species, scarcely 



two specimens of which agree precisely in colour and markings. 

 Caterpillars nearly black or brownish, with three elevated bluish tubercles on 



each segment laterally ; hirsuties dusky-red ; they feed on various plants, espe- 

 cially lettuces and chickweed : they are hatched in the autumn, and come forth 



in the spring, and change to pupa? in June, the moth appeai-ing towards the 



end of July. 



A very abundant species in tlie vicinity of London, and, I pre- 

 sume, throughout the chief part of England. 



1" Sp. 2. Matronula. Alis anticis fuscus extcrius JIavo-muculutis, posticisjluvis 

 nigro suh-fasciuiis. (Exp. alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.) 



Ph. Bo. Matronula. Liiine. — Tiirton (!) — Ar. Matronula. Steph. Cutal. Nu. 

 6029. 



Larger than the preceding : anterior wings deep fuscous, with irregular, some- 

 times confluent, yellowish, or cream-coloured spots on the anterior margin, 

 and a smaller one towards the anal angle : lov/er wings yellow or luteous, with 

 two rows of interrupted black patches, disposed in bands : head and thorax 

 fuscous, with sanguineous streaks, the latter with a lateral cream-coloured 

 streak: abdomen sanguineous, with short transverse black fasciie on the back. 



Caterpillar pale brown, with the tubercles on which the hairs are placed, and 

 the legs rufescent ; it feeds on the lime. 



This remarkably elegant insect is marked as a native of Britain by Dr. Tiuton, 

 but, I believe, without suflicicnt authority. 



