ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET, 



SETINA IRRORELLA. Stephens. 



Antennae, legs, head, thorax and abdo.nen black , 

 the tip of the latter, the collar and pelagian orange 

 yellow ; the back with a large yellowish spot : an- 

 terior wings of a clear orange yellow, with three 

 transverse rows of black spots, two of which are 

 towards the middle ; and the third, somewhat irre- 

 gularly waved, on the hinder margin : cilia bright 

 orange yellow : posterior wings pale orange yellow, 

 with two or three black spots towards the hinder 

 margin anteriorly : caterpillar black, with yellow 

 dorsal lines and lateral stripes ; it feeds on the 

 common lichen and changes to a red brown pupa : 

 the perfect insect appears in June. 



Many species of the Lithosiidae in certain years 

 appear common, but local : the pretty species figured 

 was taken last summer, in the greatest profusion, 

 near Leith Hill, by our esteemed friend., John Wal- 

 ton, Esq. who most liberally supplied us with 

 specimens. 



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