92 Lloyd's natural history. 



Anthrocera loti, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 109 



(1828). 

 Anthrocera trifolii. Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 4, fig. 3 (1839). 

 Anthrocera lonicerce, Buckler, Larvoe of Brit. Lepid. p. 18^ 



pi. 19, fig. 3 (1887). 



Var. a. Anthrocera ehoraca, 

 Zygmia ehoraca, Prest. Ent. xvi. p. 273 (1883); id. Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1883, p. xxviii. 



This species expands from i to i^ inch. It is blackish- 

 blue or blackish-green with five carmine spots, of which the 

 basal pair are nearly confluent, and the central pair never 

 united. The hind-wings are carmine, with a somewhat narrow 

 hind margin. The antennae are long with an elongated, 

 gradually-expanding club, which is gradually pointed. 



Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet. 



It is widely distributed in Northern and Western Europe 

 and Asia, but, like most of the Burnets, is a local insect in 

 Britain. 



The larva is apple-green with two black lateral stripes, 

 interrupted between the segments, and with a row of black 

 dots between the two stripes. It feeds on horse-shoe vetch 

 [Hippocrepis comosa) and bird's-foot trefoil i^Lotus corniculatus). 



Alany experienced entomologists consider this insect to be 

 only a variety of the last. 



