214 AECTIAD^. 



brown. Fore wing bright red-brown ; thinly scaled; two black 

 discoidal points ; traces of a red streak below costa ; cilia redder. 

 Hind wing thinly scaled, suffused with fuscous black, the veins, two 

 points on discocellulars, and a diffused terminal band darker ; the 

 inner area, costa except at apex, and cilia bright crimson. 



Fig. 135. — Thragmatohia fuliginosa, (^ . \. 



Ab. 1. horealis. Darker ; hind wing with traces of crimson on inner 

 area only or with the cilia also crimson. — Lapland ; Scotland. 



Ab. 2. fervida. Paler ; hind wing crimson ; the terminal band 

 sometimes reduced to four snbterminal spots. — C. Europe ; Greece ; 

 Malta ; Morocco. 



Hah. Throughout Europe, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll., Greece, Frey & Merlin Colls., Malta {J. J. Walker), 

 Lapland (McLacJilan) ; Morocco, Esniir (J. J. Walker) ; "W. Asia ; 

 Altai: Amur; Canada, Hudson's Bay (Barnston), Kenfrew Co., 

 Grote Coll. : U.S.A., IS". Atlantic States, N. York, Grote Coll. Exp. 

 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 39 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. p. 27r), pi. 75. f. 1. 

 Dark grey or brown ; hairs brown, reddish or ochreous ; head 

 black. Food-plants^ grasses, Rumex, Myosotis, etc. 8-4. 



1673. Phragmatobia assimilans. (Plate XLTII. fig. 22.) 



Phragmatohia assimilans, Wlk. iii. 630 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 245. 

 Phraqmatobia assimilans, ya,r. franconia, Slosson, Ent. News, vol. iv. p. 16 

 (1893). 



• <S . Head and thorax bright red-brown tinged with crimson ; 

 antennae j'ellowish white; pectus and legs crimson and brown: abdo- 

 men crimson above, with slight dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing bright red-brown, 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; two discoidal black points. Hind 

 Aving crimson, with two discoidal black points ; a subterminal spot 

 on vein 2 and traces of others towards apex. 



Ab. 1. franconia. Rather darker ; fore wing with obscure fuscous 

 antemedial line angled below cell, a postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 3, and a sinuous subterminal line ; hind wing with subterminal 

 blackish band. 



Hah. U.S.A., mountains of X. York and W. England (Doubleday), 

 2 cJ type, 2 d , Zeller Coll. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



