148 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



found in England. It has some resemblance in the distri- 

 bution of its colours to Hypercompa caia, but is a much 

 stouter insect, with more strongly pectinated antennae, and a 

 longer abdomen ; and the wings are longer and narrower, the 

 fore-wings being more uniformly broad, and not nearly so much 

 narrowed at the base as in Hypercompa. 



EUCHARIA FESTIVA. 



(Plate LXXXVI. Fig. i.) 



Bombyx festiva, Hufnagel, Berlin. Mag. ii. (4) pp. 416, 437, no. 



31 (1766). 

 Bombyx hebe, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.) i. (2) p. 820, no. 40 



(1767) ; Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 181, Taf. 34 (1784) ; Hiib 



ner, Eur. Schmett. iii. figs. 129, 296 (1804 ?). 

 Eyprepia hebe, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 339 



(1810). 

 Arctia hebe, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 104, pi. 23, 



fig. 9 (1880). 



This species occurs in many parts of Europe and Northern 

 and Western Asia, preferring warm sandy places. The ex- 

 panse of the wings is from 2 to 2^ inches. 



The fore-wings are rich velvety-black, with five irregular 

 white bars bordered with orange, the two posterior being 

 united by a longitudinal one. The hind-wings are rose- 

 coloured in the male, blood-red in the female, with black 

 spots. The fringes are black. The head and thorax are 

 black, and the abdomen is of the same colour as the hind- 

 wings, with a black dorsal stripe and a black tip. 



The larva is black, with tubercles of the same colour, each 

 bearing rather long hairs, grey on the back, greyish-yellow on 

 the sides, and deep red near the belly. It feeds on a great 

 variety of common plants, such as dandelion, millefoil, &c. 

 It hybernates, and passes through its metamorphoses about 



