pale buff-white, the outer margin reddish, within it a 

 broad border of black veined through with the former 

 colour. 



Female: fore wings deep rusty orange, with reddish 

 orange veins. Hind wings deep rusty orange. 



Localities for this species are York, Brighton, Lyming- 

 ton, Preston, Worthing, Linwood near Market Rasen, 

 Coombehurst, Black Park, Selling, Blandford, Scarbor- 

 ough, Chilham, Bisterne, Isle of Wight, Peterborough, 

 Arran, Stowmarket, Dorchester, Perth, Kilmun, Kil- 

 larney, Chat-Moss, Birmingham, Halton, Teignmouth, 

 Haldon, Exeter, Carlisle, Plymouth, Epping, Lewes, 

 Leicester, Pennance, and Budock near Falmouth. 



The situations where it is found are open heaths. 



The perfect insect appears the latter end of June 

 and in July. 



The caterpillar is blackish brown, covered with reddish 

 hairs, with a yellow line spotted with red along the 

 back. 



The caterpillar is to be found in September, and 

 again in May. 



It feeds on the plantain (Plantago lanccolata), the 

 dandelion (Taraxicum dcns-lconis}, the scabious (Scabiosa 



fit(Cf'i'sCl), &C. 



CHELON1A. PLANTAGIN1S. 



WOOD TIGER. 

 Plate X. Figure 9. 



THIS insect measures from a little under to a little 

 over an inch and a half or more in width. Male: fore 

 wings black, with cream-white streaks, and spots edged 

 with dull yellow, one long one from the inner corner 

 along but within the lower margin, a short cross one 



