196 THE GENERA OF BRITISH MOTHS. 
in allusion to the strong and angular black mark in the centre of the fore wings, which somewhat resembles a 
very widely opened letter V, while the deep rich orange within it gives it the appearance of being illumi- 
nated with orange, and so becoming an ‘orange V.” This somewhat too fanciful designation may serve as 
the English name of this handsome acquisition to our list of native Moths, till a better is coined for it. As I 
stated at page 18, this fine insect was first discovered by the enterprising collector Mr. Bouchard,* in the 
autumn of 1858. He discovered it in the west of Ireland, where he has this year (1859) taken another perfect 
specimen, which is now in the British Museum, and from which the present illustration was drawn. The 
Caterpillar (No. §) is drawn from the description of Gedart. This insect is tolerably abundant in some parts of 
the Continent, especially in the neighbourhood of Valenciennes, but it is very local. 
No. 9. Hypercompa Hera (the New Scarlet Tiger Moth), This is another splendid novelty recently added 
to our list of native Lepidoptera. The first well-authenticated capture of this beautiful species occurred in 1855. 
Mr. Reeve, of Newhaven, Sussex, made the following statement in the ‘‘Zoologist” on the occasion :— 
“Capture of Callimorpha Herat on the coast of Sussex. I beg to record in the pages of the ‘‘Zoologist,” the 
capture of a single specimen of (. Hera on the wing in this town, on the 5th of September, 1855.” This 
appeared in the fourteenth volume of the ‘‘ Zoologist,” in 1856. No other specimen was heard of till the present 
season (1859), when I received a letter dated August 15th, from Mr. Russell of Monk’s Eleigh, Bilderstone, Suffolk, 
in which he says, ‘‘ While on a visit the week before last at Wrexham, North Wales, I took five specimens of 
a Moth unknown tome.” A specimen was afterwards forwarded to me at my request, which proved to be 
Callimorpha Hera ; and which, at the request of Mr. Russell, I presented in his name to the British Museum, 
to be placed in the fine national collection of British Lepidoptera of that establishment. I have since heard of 
another specimen being taken this season on the coast of Devonshire, and there are reports of some other 
captures, so that this handsome insect may now be considered as fairly on the list of our native Arctiidae, 
* Misprinted Bouchone at p. 15. 
+ Mr. H. Doubleday’s name of the genus, 
