94 LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE SIX-SPOTTED BURNET. ANTHROCERA FILIPENDUL^. 

 {Plate LXXX. Fig. 5.) 



Sphi7ix fiUpendiilce^ Linnasus, Syst. Nat. i. (ed. x.)p. 494, no. 32 

 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 290 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. ii. 

 (i)p.i38,taf.i6, figs.^-^(i78o);p.233,taf.36,fig.8(i783). 



Adscita aries, Retzius, Gen. Sp. Ins. p. 35, no. 35 (1783). 



Sphinx filipendulce. major^ Esper, Schmett. ii. (2) p. 19, taf. 41, 



fig. 4(1789). 

 Zygcena filipendidcB^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 54 



(1808); Curtis, Brit. Ent. xii. pi. 547 (1835); Kirby, Eur. 



Butterflies & Moths, p. 91, pi. 21, figs. 10, a^ b (1879); 



Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii. p. 133, pi. 60 (1894). 

 Anthrocera filiptndulce, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 



no (1828) ; Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 97, pi. 



19, fig. 4 (1887). 



Var. a. Afithroce7'a hippocrepidis, 



Anthrocera hippocrepidis^ Stephens (nee Hiibner), 111. Brit. Ent. 

 Haust. i. p. 109, no. 5 (1828); Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 4, fig 

 6(1839). 



Bluish-green, with six equal-sized carmine spots, the basal 

 pair confluent, the central pair sometimes confluent, as are 

 also the external pair occasionally ; hind-wings carmine, with 

 a gently curved black hind-margin, which is generally very 

 narrow. The expanse of the wings is about the same as in A. 

 lotiicerce. 



The larva is yellow, with a black head and fore-legs, and 

 three rows of black spots on the back, and a row of smaller 

 ones on each side. It feeds on plantain, trefoil, &c. 



The variety A. hippocrepidis differs in having the black 

 border of the hind-wings more distinct. 



Stephens mentions that he took specimens in the vicinity of 

 London in 1810, 



