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bright scarlet spots varying in shape and size. The 

 abdomen and under wings are white, slightly tinged 

 with blue, the latter with a broad dusky marginal 

 band, sinuated on the inner side, and becoming 

 narrow towards the body, the transverse nervure 

 closing the basal areolet dilated and blackish ; the 

 fringe of all the wings pale yellow. 



The caterpillar is hairy, of a bluish-grey colour, 

 spotted with black and red, and having a white 

 dorsal line. (PL xxi. fig. 5.) It feeds on Helio- 

 tropium Europeum, Solanum tomentosum, and field 

 mouse- ear (Myosotis arvensis)^ only the latter of 

 which is indigenous to this country. 



This very beautiful moth is frequent in the 

 southern European countries, and is said likewise 

 to be found in Asia and America. It is one of our 

 rarest native species, the following, we believe, being 

 the only places where it has occurred, and only a 

 single example except in one instance having been 

 found in each : near Christchurch, Hants ; Hove, 

 near Brighton ; Yorkshire. 



