THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 132.] 



AUGUST, MDCCCLXXIV. [Price 6d. 



Variety of Arctia Lubricipeda (female). 



Variety of Arctia Luhricipeda. — The antennae are simple; 

 the ground colour of all the wings is cream-colour; the lore 

 wings are marked with black, the base, fringe, wing-rays and 

 four blotches excepted ; the markings of the hind wings are 

 not so dark as those of the fore wings, and in them the base, 

 wing-rays and fringe alone are cream-coloured ; the head and 

 thorax are the same colour as the ground of the wings, and 

 the body is yellow, with six black spots down the middle and 

 on each side. — G. R. Dawson; June 18, 1874. 



[Mr. Dawson has most obligingly lent the specimen for 

 the purpose of figuring iu the 'Entomologist.' Ti)e late 

 Mr. John Curtis published a beautiful figure of a very similar 

 variety, under the name of Arctia radiata. A similar variety 

 of Arctia Menthastri occasionally, but very rarely, occurs. — 

 Edtvard Newman.] 



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