164 THK MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



in hay fields, and once found half a dozen along a short stretch 

 of the Upper clitTat Ventnor, Isle of Wight. 



It is perhaps most frequent in the south-west, but the species 

 seerns to be widely distributed and fairly common from Kent to 

 Cornwall, and westward from Hampshire to Gloucestershire. 

 It also occurs in the eastern counties to Cambridge and Norfolk. 

 From Cheshire it has been twice reported, and two specimens 

 are said to have been taken, a few years ago, in the Lancaster 

 district. p» 



The Jersey Tiger {^CalUmorpha qiiadripuucfarid). 



This handsome species long known as C. hera, Linn., but for 

 which Poda's earlier name quadyipunctaria must be adopted, 

 has its English home in South Devonshire. The species had 

 been recorded as British as far back as 1855, when one moth 

 was taken at Newhaven in Sussex ; in 1859 a specimen was 

 obtained in North Wales, two were taken in Sussex, 1868, and 

 one was captured in the Isle of Wight in 1877. The last- 

 mentioned example was kindly presented to me by the captor, 

 Mr. Rowland Brown. For the county of Devon, the earliest 

 record is that of a specimen netted in a garden at Alphington, 

 near Exeter, in 1871, followed soon after by a report of others 

 at a place near Lodderwell. Ten or eleven years later the 

 moth was found at Dawlish, and in that neighbourhood and in 

 other parts of a wide area stretching from Exeter to Teignmouth, 

 and perhaps further west, it has been taken almost every year 

 up to the present time (1907). Large numbers of eggs have 

 been obtained and distributed among entomologists, many of 

 whom have successfully wintered the caterpillars and eventually 

 reared the moths. 



The principal variation is in the colour of the hind wings and 

 the body, which usually are red, but in var. lutcscens^ Stand., are 

 yellow ; between the red and the yellow forms there are all 



