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Dorset and Devon it is widely distributed, though usually 

 scarce ; and the same may be said with regard to Norfolk, 

 Suffolk and Essex ; yet it has been foand commonly at 

 Aldeburgh. Eare in Gloucestershire, Surrey, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire, though it has occurred at Chatteris, Ely, and 

 near Wicken, in the latter county. Also recorded from 

 Tresco, Scilly Isles; Redcar, Scarborough and elsewhere 

 in Yorkshire; Newby Cross, Cumberland, near Hartlepool, 

 Durham, South Shields, and Newcastle-on-Tyne ; also, on 

 the Scottish border, in Berwickshire. In Ireland, a single 

 specimen appears to have been obtained in the county 

 Wicklow in 1877. Abroad it has a wide range — South 

 Sweden, throughout Central Europe, Livonia, Dalmatia, 

 Siberia, Armenia, Tartary, and Japan ; specimens in both 

 sexes from the last-named country, though placed under the 

 name of Dives, being precisely identical. 



Family 7. ARCTIID-ffi. 



Antennge in most cases shortly, but strongly, pectinated 

 with solid rays or teeth in the male ; fore wings generally 

 broad, and rather squared ; hind wings usually ample ; in 

 most species with all the wings handsomely coloured, and in 

 many cases with striking markings of irregularly-placed 

 bands, stripes, and spots. 



Larvae very hairy, usually not tufted. 



Pupa of ordinary rounded form, moderately blunt behind, 

 in a loose, silken cocoon. 



This family includes many of the most brilliantly-coloured 

 species of the group, having the most eccentric markings, 

 and in some cases being among the most variable. The 

 hind wings are frequently as brilliantly-coloured as the fore 

 wings, in many cases more so. These brilliant species are 

 commonly known with us as " tiger-moths." Why, it is 

 difficult to conjecture, since their stripes are by no means 

 regular nor parallel. 



