I 7 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



resembles the Burnets, and like them, is liable to have the red 

 portion of the wings occasionally replaced with yellow. Some 

 authors think that it is related to the Agaristidce ; and in one 

 of his later works, Guenee speaks of it as an European repre- 

 sentative of that Family. It flies by day. 



THE CINNABAR MOTH. HIPOCRITA JACOB^^E. 

 (Plate LX XX VIII. Fig. 4 (imago), 5 (larva).) 



Noctua jacobcecz, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 511, no. Si 



(1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 307 (1761); Esper, Schmett. 



iv. (i) p. 87, t, 91, ngs. 6-8(1786). 

 Litkosia jacobtztz, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 154 



(1810). 

 Callimorpha jacobcea^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 90 



(1829) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. xi. pi. 499 (1834) ; Buckler, 



Larvae of Brit. Lepid. iii. pi. 46, fig. i (1889). 

 Callimorpha senecionis^ Godart, Lepid. France, iv. p. 377, pi. 



42, fig. 4 (1822). 

 Euchelia jacobcea, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 101, pi. 



22, figs. 13, a, b (1879); Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. ii. p. 



247, pi. 69, figs. 4, 40, b (1894). 

 Hipocrita jacobacRi Kirby, Cat. Lepid. Heter. i. p. 351 (1892). 



The Cinnabar Moth, or Pink Underwing, as it is sometimes 

 called, is found in Europe and Western Asia to the Altai. The 

 colouring is very peculiar, and it presents this additional singu- 

 larity, that the upper and under surfaces are precisely alike. 

 The fore-wings are greyish-black, with a carmine stripe near the 

 costa, extending from the base nearly to the apex, with two spots 

 of the same colour on the hind margin. The hind-wings are 

 bright red, with black fringes. The antennae, body, and legs 

 are deep black. 



