

SPILARCTIA. 133 



THE BUFF ERMINE. SPILARCTIA LUTEA. 



Bombyx lubridpeda, ft. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. (ed. x.) i. p. 



506, no. 47 (i75 8 )- 



Bombyx lubridpeda, $. Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 303 (1761). 

 Bombyx lubridpeda lutea, Hufnagel, Berl. Mag. ii. p. 412, no. 



26 (1766). 

 Bombyx lubridpeda, Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 330, taf. 66, figs. 



1-5 (1786); Marsham, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. i. p. 71, 



pi. i, fig. 2 (1791); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. figs. 155, 



156 (1804). 

 Eyprepia lubridpeda, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 358 



(1810). 

 Chelonia lubridpeda, Godart, Le'pid. France, iv. p. 358, pi. 37, 



fig. 3 (1822). 

 Spilosoma lubridpeda, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 77 



(1828); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 105 (1880); 



Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. iii. p. 50, pi. 45, fig. 4 



(1889); Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. ii. p. 281, pi. 76 



(1894). 



Var. a. Spilarctia zatima. 



Noctua zatima, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 381, fig. F (1781). 

 Bombyx radiatus, Haworth, Ent. Trans, i. p. 336 (1812). 

 Spilosoma radiata, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 77 



(1828); Westwood & Humphreys, Brit. Moths, i. pp. 



88, 92, pi. 1 8, fig. 19(1843). 



The Buff Ermine is a native of Europe and Northern Asia. 

 It expands from i J^ to i ^ inch. 



The Moth is pale yellow, the male being darker than the 

 female. The fore-wings have two, or three, small black spots 

 towards the base, and an oblique row of spots running from 

 the costa to the inner margin; besides these there are a 



