146 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY 



This handsome Moth has an extended range throughout 

 Europe and Western Asia, but is local in Britain. It measures 

 from two to two and a half inches across the fore-wings, which 

 have the ground-colour black, each with about eight yellowish 

 or cream-coloured spots of various sizes. The hind- wings are 

 rather deep yellow, with a few scattered small black spots, and 

 a large black patch on the outer angle, enclosing a few irregular 

 spots of the ground-colour. 



The larva is velvety-black after its last moult, with light 

 brown tufts of hair, white spiracles, and reddish- brown legs 

 and head. It feeds on most of our common field plants. 



The cocoon is whitish-grey, and the pupa black, with red- 

 dish-brown incisions. 



GENUS EUPLAGIA. 

 Eufilagta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 180 (1822 ?). 



This genus has much resemblance to Callimorpha, in which 

 it is sometimes included, but the fore-wings are much shorter, 

 with the tip distinctly angulated, and streaked instead of 

 spotted ; the hind-wings, which are red with black spots, are 

 likewise more rounded. The antennae are simple and ciliated, 

 and the abdomen is rather long, and moderately stout 



THE JERSEY TIGER MOTH. EUPLAGIA QUADRIPUNCTARIA. 



Noctna quadripunctaria, Poda, Mus. Graec. p. 89, no. 20 



(1761). 



Noctua hera, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat (ed. xii.) i. (2) p. 834, no. 



97 (1767) ; Esper, Schmett. iv. (i) p. 41, Taf. 83, figs. 5-7 



(1786). 



Bombyx hera, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. iii. fig. 116 (1804?). 

 Eyprepia hera, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 319 (1810). 

 Callimorpha hera, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 101, pi. 



23, figs. 2, 2a, b (1880); Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. p. 



253> P 1 - 7i % s - 2 > 2a > b ( l8 94)- 



