156 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



less pinkish shade, sometimes inclining to orange, with several 

 angular black spots massed towards the hind margin. These 

 are occasionally narrowly edged with yellow ochre. 



The larva is brown, with several yellow tubercles on each 

 segment bearing tufts of hair ; head and pro-legs yellow. " It 

 feeds," says Abbot, " on several species of mimosa, commonly 

 called the sensible briar, panting briar, &c., as well as on 

 some other plants. It spun upon June icth, and on the 

 2oth September the Moth came out. In Virginia it spins in 

 April, and comes forth in May. This is not a common 

 kind. The caterpillar, when kept in confinement, is apt to 

 die before it changes to a chrysalis." The chrysalis is of 

 a delicate lilac colour. 



APANTESIS ARGE. 

 (Plate LXXXVL Fig. 2.) 



Noctua arge, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. i. pi. 18, fig. 3 (1773). 

 Bombyx dione, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 572, no. 54 (1775). 

 Phalena dione. Abbot & Smith, Lepid. Georg. ii. pi. 63 (1797). 

 Spilosoma arge, Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, 



p. 174, pi. 19, fig. 2 (1841). 



Arctia arge, Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Amer. p. 225, pi. 9, 

 figs. 10, ii (1874). 



This species, like the last, inhabits North America. It ex- 

 pands i^ to 2 inches. 



Nearly all the Tiger and Ermine Moths are subject to great 

 variation in their markings, but the present species appears 

 even to exceed the usual limits in this respect. The ground- 

 colour of the fore-wings and thorax is generally cream-colour, 

 but may be delicate pink. There are numerous black lines 

 and angular spots. The hind-wings are either cream-colour or 

 tinged with red, having a fulvous marginal line and many ob- 

 long black spots posteriorly. The antennae are black at the 



