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130 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



grey hairs. It has a fine, often almost imperceptible, pale 

 dorsal line, and a rust-coloured head and legs. 



It feeds on nettle, plantain, dandelion. &c. The chrysalis 

 is smooth and brown, and is contained in a slight brownish 

 cocoon on the ground. 



SUB-FAMILY VI. ARCTIIN^. 



The Arctii7ice. include a large number of brightly-coloured 

 Moths of moderate size, with short, stout, pubescent bodies, 

 and pectinated antennae. The hind-wings are almost always 

 adorned with bright red or yellow, and the fore-wings have 

 interlacing white lines or bands. They are peculiarly 

 characteristic of the Northern Hemisphere, and comparatively 

 few species are described from Africa or South America. 



GENUS PIIRAGMATOBIA. 



Fhragniatobia^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 73 (1828) ; 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 628 (1855); 

 Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. i860, p. 536 

 (1861). 



This genus includes the smallest British species of Arciiidtx. 

 The smoky-brown, slightly transparent, wings, stained with red, 

 and the short antennae, serrated and ciliated in the male, and 

 simple in the female, will at once distinguish it from any other. 

 A very similar species to ours {P. rubricosa^ Harris) is found 

 in the United States. 



THE RUBY TIGER MOTH. PIIRAGMATOBIA FULIGINOSA. 

 {Plate LXXXV. Fig. 2 ) 

 Nodua fuliginosa, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 509, no. 

 70 (1758) ; id. Faun. Suec. p. 308 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. 

 iv. p. 56, pi. 86, figs. 1-5(1786); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. 

 iii. fig. 143 (1804?). 



