THE FEATHERED FOOTMAN. l6} 



The chrysalis is dark reddish, rather blacker above ; enclosed 

 in a silken cocoon spun up among leaves, etc., on the ground. 



The moth emerges in June, and seems partial to marshy 

 ground. It is found in the district between Dover and Deal 

 commonly, and in other parts of Kent more rarely. Also in 

 Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, South Wales, Gloucestershire, 

 Wiltshire, Berkshire (water meadows by the Kennet), and 

 Hertfordshire (rare). Some years ago I found a few specimens 

 in the Brandon district, but it is not plentiful in Suffolk, and is 

 rare in or absent from Norfolk. It is found in Cambridgeshire, 

 chiefly in Wicken fen. 



Note. — Although Calliniorpha is here left in its old position 

 among Arctiida:, the genus has been referred by Hampson to 

 Hypsidas, a family of moths belonging to the African, Oriental, 

 and Australian regions. Our two species are the sole repre- 

 sentatives of the family in Europe. 



The Feathered Footman {Cosdnia striata). 



Altogether there do not appear to have been more than six or 

 seven specimens of this species (Plate 90) recorded as British. 

 Stephens mention^ three of these, two males taken in the 

 autumn of 18 15, near Windsor; and one specimen, without 

 date, in the Isle of Anglesea. Of the others one appears to 

 have been taken in Yorkshire (1832), one in Essex, and another 

 in North Wales (1859). Barrett also refers to a specimen, which 

 v^^as captured but afterwards escaped, near Bettws-y-Coed, 

 North Wales, June, 1859, and gives some circumstantial details 

 of the event. It appears, therefore, that of the very limited 

 number of British striata North Wales has furnished almost 

 half. The species is widely distributed in Europe, except the 

 most northern part ; the range extending int© Asia Minor, 

 Syria, Armenia, and Amurland. Abroad, it occurs on heaths, 

 and in warm dry places. The caterpillar is blackish-brown, 



