136 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



grey hairs. It has a fine, often almost imperceptible, pale 

 dorsal line, and a rust-coloured head and legs. 



It feeds on nettle, plantain, dandelion, &c. The chrysalis 

 is smooth and brown, and is contained in a slight brownish 

 cocoon on the ground. 



SUB-FAMILY VI. ARCTIIN^E. 



The Arctiina include a large number of brightly-coloured 

 Moths of moderate size, with short, stout, pubescent bodies, 

 and pectinated antennae. The hind-wings are almost always 

 adorned with bright red or yellow, and the fore-wings have 

 interlacing white lines or bands. They are peculiarly 

 characteristic of the Northern Hemisphere, and comparatively 

 few species are described from Africa or South America. 



GENUS PHRAGMATOBIA. 



Phragmatobid) Stephens, 111, Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 73 (1828) ; 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 628 (1855); 

 Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1860, p. 536 

 (1861). 



This genus includes the smallest British species of Arctiida. 

 The smoky-brown, slightly transparent, wings, stained with red, 

 and the short antennae, serrated and ciliated in the male, and 

 simple in the female, will at once distinguish it from any other. 

 A very similar species to ours (P. rubricosa, Harris) is found 

 in the United States. 



THE RUBY TIGER MOTH. PHRAGMATOBIA FULIGINOSA. 



(Plate LXXXV. Fig. 2 ) 



Noctua fuh'ginosa, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 509, no. 

 70 (1758) ; id. Faun. Suec. p. 308 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. 

 iv. p. 56, pi. 86, figs. 1-5(1786); Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. 

 iii. fig. 143 (1804?). 



