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RUBY TIGER-MOTH. 



Phragmatobia fuliginosa. 

 PLATE XX. Fig. 3. 



Phal. Noc. fuliginosa, Linn. ; Don. iii. PI. 80 Ruby Tiger, 



Harris* Aurd. PL 27 Chelonia fuliginosa, Godart 



Arctia fulig. Latr Phragmatobia fulig. Steph. 



THIS genus, like several others in the same family, 

 has the scales so thinly placed on the wings that 

 these memhers appear more or less diaphanous. 

 This circumstance, taken in connexion with the 

 structure of the antennae, which are short and almost 

 simple in hoth sexes, and the very rohust hody, 

 suffices to distinguish it from any other with which 

 it has any chance of being confounded. The palpi 

 are short and hairy, having the two lower joints of 

 equal length ; the head very small. The only 

 British species referable to it is the pretty little 

 moth named the Ruby Tiger. It varies much in 

 colour, but the upper wings are most commonly 

 reddish brown, with two black points near the 

 middle of each, and the fringe bright red ; the hinder 

 pair bright red, becoming black posteriorly, with a 

 streak of that colour at the extremity of the discoidal 



