90 HAUSTKLLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



genous Lepidopterous insect that has botli surfaces precisely similar : 

 the larvae of Ce. Jacobseae are but slightly pilose, and feed upon 

 flowers ; whereas those of Ce. miniata are densely clothed with hairs, 

 and subsist upon leaves : the latter are solitary, but the former are 

 somewhat gregarious, and in that respect agree with those of the 

 Arctiidje, with which family this genus has evidently so great an 

 affinity that Latreille and others have generally associated it with 

 the genus Hypercompa. 



Sp. 1. Jacobasse. Alis anticis utrinque fusco-cinereis, lineis maculisgue duabus 

 rubris, posticis rub?-is nigro-marginatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 11 lin.) 



Ph. No. Jacobaeae. Linne.—Don. ii. pi 45. — Ca. Jacobaeae. Steph. Catal. No- 

 6045. 



Antennae^ head, thorax, abdomen, and legs black : anterior wings on both sides 

 ashy-brown, with a longitudinal sanguineous streak towards the costa, and 

 another abbreviated one on the inner margin at the base, and two spots of 

 a similar coloiu- on the hinder margin : posterior wings also similar on both sur- 

 faces, bright sanguineous, with the costa irregularly fuscous ; fringe of all ashy- 

 brown, excepting on the anal angle of the posterior, where it is sanguineous. 



Var. ^. The sanguineous colour converted into a pale luteous. 



Caterpillar slightly hairy, black, annulated with yellow ; it feeds on the flowers 

 of the ragwort, and is most abundant at the end of June, when it changes, in 

 a slight cocoon, to an obtuse reddish pupa ; the imago appears in the following 

 May. 



Very abundant in the larva state in Darenth-wood ; also at Hert- 

 ford, in Epping Forest, at Ripley, and in a sand-pit near Charlton. 

 " Scarce near Kimpton ; found at Amesbury and at Marton Lodge, 

 Yorks."— i^^u, G. T. Riidd. " Near York, and in Suffolk."— W^. 

 C. HewHson, Esq. " Common in Cambridgeshire." — Rev. L. 

 Jenyns. " Abundant near Barnstaple, Devon." — W. Raddon, Esq. 



Sp. 2. miniata. Alis miniatis anticis strigis tribus nigris, secundd undatd, tertid 



punctata. (Exp. alar. 10 lin.— 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Ph. miniata. Forster. — Ph. rosea. Don. ii. pi. 40. Jig. inf. — Car. miniata. 



Steph. Catal. No. 6046. 



Antennae luteous, with dusky ciliae : head and thorax lutescent, abdomen paler, 

 with the sides and under surface, in the males, fuscous : anterior wings dark 

 rose colour, with one or two black spots at the base, then an undiilated black 

 striga, followed, behind the middle, with an obhque very much undulated one 

 of similar hue, and on the margin a bent series of distinct black dots, varying 

 in number : posterior wings paler, or ochraceous, immacxilate, with the margin 

 rose coloured : cilia of all pale luteous. 



Caterpillar brown, with long gray hairs placed in tufts ; the head reddish brown, 

 with orange pubescence : it feeds on the birch, ash, and oak in the spring, 



