34 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" blown-over" theory to these. However, since it cannot be 

 disputed that the species has occurred in Britain, I present my 

 readers with a figure and description. It is remarkable that 

 a day-flying insect, like Hera, should twice have been taken 

 in the night: once attracted by light, and burning its wings 

 in the lamp ; and once attracted by the sugar bait. 



68 a*. The Striped Tiger. — Palpi rather long, ascending, 

 the basal joint ochreous, the second black, the penultimate 

 ochreous, the apical black ; face ochreous, with a lozenge- 

 shaped median black spot; crown ochreous, with a black 

 spot on each side, from the centres of which arise the filiform 

 antennae, which are blackish above and dusky ochreous 

 beneath ; the lateral halves of the collar or prothorax are 

 black, each bordered with ochreous in front and on the sides, 

 but not behind ; the tippets are elongate-triangular, the 

 scales at the tips long and setiform ; the metathorax is black 

 in the middle, pale ochreous or cream-coloured on the sides; 

 the fore wings are variegated with black and cream-colour; 

 the black is glossed with metallic iridescence ; the cream- 

 colour is shaded to ochreous at the anal angle; it is thus 

 distributed, — first, at the base of the wing is a pointed stripe 

 parallel with the inner margin (this extends little more than 

 a fourth of the distance between the base of the wing and the 

 anal angle) ; the second is a short and narrow oblique costal 

 stripe, having nearly the same direction ; the third is a much 

 broader and much longer pointed oblique stripe, tending 

 directly towards the anal angle, but not nearly reaching it; 

 the fourth is a short and narrow oblique stripe, corresponding 

 with the second ; the fifth stripe is broader and longer, and 

 unites with the sixth, which has a contrary direction, and is 

 parallel with the hind margin ; these two stripes form the 

 letter V, and are joined to the ochreous space, already noticed, 

 at the anal angle, in which are four roundish black spots; 

 the hind margin is cream-colour ; the hind wings are 

 crimson-scarlet, with three black spots, neither of which is of 

 regular form, although all are clearly defined; one of these, 

 generally the smallest, is situated rather above the middle of 

 the wing, another is between this and the hind margin, and 

 the third, which is much larger than the others, occupies the 

 apical angle, enclosing a crimson-scarlet marginal blotch ; 

 the body is pink, with a medio-dorsal series of black spots, 



