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The larva, which is well-known throughout the country as 

 the "Hairy Worm" and the "Woolly Bear," and in the South of 

 Scotland as the " Hairy oubit,'' feeds on almost all our garden 

 plants. It hybernates at various stages of its growth, but is 

 usually full-grown by the end of May or beginning of June. 

 It is velvety-black, with whitish warts, on which grow long 

 tufts of hair, rusty-yellow on the first three segments and on 

 the sides, but otherwise black. At the extremities the hairs are 

 whitish. 



GENUS ARCTIA. 

 Arctia, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (2) p. 151 (1802); Leach, 

 Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 133 (1815); Stephens, 111. Brit. 

 Ent. Haust. ii. p. 69 (1828). 



In the present genus, the fore-wings are rather narrower than in 

 Hypercompa^ the costa is more rounded, and the whole outline 

 of all the wings likewise. The pattern of the fore -wings is 

 quite different, as they are marked with a double row of large 

 cream-coloured spots diverging from the base, parallel to the 

 costa and the hind margin ; the hind-wings are orange, not 

 red, spotted and tipped with black. 



THE CREAM-SPOT TIGER MOTH. ARCTIA VILLICA. 



[Plate LXXXV. Fig. 3.) 



Bombyx villicay Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 501, no. 24 



(1758) ; Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 185, Taf. 35 (1784) ; Hiib- 



ner, Eur. Schmett. iii. fig. 136 (1804 ?). 

 Bombyx vidua, Poda, Mus. Grsec. p. 88, no. 15 (1761). 

 Eyprepia villica^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii, p. 330 



(1810). 

 Arctia villica, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 71 (1828) ; 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 103, pi. 23, fig. 7 



(1880); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. iii. pi. 44, fig. 4 



(1889); Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. ii. p. 270, pi. 73 



(1894). 



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