CHELONIA CAGA. 



COMMON TIGER. LARGE TIGER. GARDEN TIGER. 

 Plate XI. Figure 1. 



Tins insect measures from a little over two to three 

 inches in expanse. Male: fore wings very rich cho- 

 colate-red brown, with cream-white markings meandering 

 through it, but very valuable in extent, the brown in 

 some superseding the white more or less. Hind wings 

 deep red, with more or less of a tinge of orange, and 

 with from four to six spots of rich purple-black, three 

 of them in a row within the outer margin, and the others 

 or other (for they are sometimes confluent) between them 

 and the inner corner; a narrow bar, again, frequently 

 interposes between them from the upper margin. 



Localities for this species, which is abundantly dis- 

 tributed through the country, are York, Nafferton, Char- 

 mouth, Worcester, Nunburnholme, Edinburgh, Falmouth, 

 &c., &c. 



The situations where it is found are gardens, lanes, 

 and a variety of others. 



The perfect insect appears in July. 



The caterpillar is black, with rather long silky whitish 

 hairs on the back, and reddish brown ones on the 

 sides, the head black, as are also the legs. 



The caterpillar lives through the winter, from October 

 to the end of May or beginning of June. 



It feeds on the nettle ( Urtica urensj, and other plants, 

 the lettuce, strawberry, &c. 



Several very remarkable varieties of this species have 

 been captured. 



