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SPECIES I.— CALLIMORPHA JACOBiE^. Plate XIX., Fio. 20—21. 



Synonymes. — Phal. {N'ociua) JacohtetB^ Linnceus ; Haworth ; 1 Donovan, vol. 2, pi. 45; Wood Ind. Eut., t. 8, fig. 91; Curtis Brit. 

 Albin. pi. 34, lig. 55, c — i ; Wilkes, pi. 55 ; Harris, Aurelian, pi. 4 ; I Eut. pi. 499 ; Duncan Brit. Moths, pi. 21, fig. 2. 



This handsome insect varies from H to nearly two inches in the expanse of the fore wings. It is of a sooty 

 black colour, with a scarlet subcostal bar, and two subapical spots on the fore wings. The hind wings scarlet, 

 with a slender black edge. The under side of the wings exactly resembles the upper side in colouring — 

 a circumstance of great rarity amongst Lepidopterous insects. 



The caterpillar is dark-golden colour, with black rings, and a few long hairs scattered over the body. 

 It feeds on the ragwort in the summer, tlie perfect insect (which is extremely common throughout the 

 country) appearing at the end of April and Maj'. It is of very sluggish habits, flying about in the day-time. 



MILTOCHRYSTA, Hubner. (CALLIMORPHA, p. Stephens, nec Cltetis. LITHOSIA, p. Bois.) 



The difficulty which recent lepidopterists have experienced in their location of the type of this genus, sufficiently 

 proves its distinctness from the other types of the present family. I have, therefore, adopted for it Hiibner's 

 name Miltochrysta. From Jacobreas, with which it is generically united by Mr. Stephens, it differs in the hairy 

 (not silky) clothing of the body, the dilated costal margin of the fore wings, the peculiar markings and colouring 

 of the wings, the slender palpi, acute at the tip, the caterpillars densely clothed with hairs, leaf- (not flower-) 

 feeders ; and solitary in their habits. Many of these characters will also serve to distinguish it from Lithosia, 

 with which it is united by Boisduval. 



SPECIES 1.— MILTOCHRYSTA MINIATA. Plate XIX., Fk. 22. 



SvNONYMES. — Phalcsna (Geom.) vnniaia^ Forstcr; Hawortb ; 

 Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 8, lig. 92 ; Hanis, Aurelian, pi. 30, 

 fig. p. 



Bombyx rosea, Fabricius ; Ochsenh. ; Godart ; Boisduval ; 

 Donovan, 2, pi. 40, iig. inf. 



Bomhyx rubicunda) Wien Verz. ; HUbner Bomb., fig. iii. 



This pretty little insect varies from ten to sixteen lines in the expanse of the fore wings. Its general colour 

 is pale-salmon buiF, the fore wings being of a more rosy tint, marked at the base with a small black dot, and two 

 slender lines running from the costa, followed (beyond the middle) by an oblique row of slender black arches, 

 and a row of submarginal black points on the veins. The under side of the abdomen is brown in the males. 



The caterpillar is short and very hairy, the hairs being plumose, verticillated, and of a grey colour, with 

 the front of the head orange-coloured. It feeds (according to Fabricius, on the lichens) upon various trees, 

 as birch, ash, oak ; the cocoon is of silk, densely woven with the hairs of the caterpillars, and the chrysalis is 

 acute ; the perfect insect appears in June. It is not a common species, although widely dispersed, having 

 been found in woody places in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire, and Staflbrdshire. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XX. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Deiopeia pulchclla (the crimson-speckled Footman moth). 2. The Caterpillar. 



*' Fig. 3. Eulepia grammica (tiie feathered Footman). 4. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 5. Eulepia cribrum. 



" Fig. 6. Litlmsia flava (the straw-coloured Footman). 



*' Fig. 7. Litbosia jduuibcnlata. 



** Fig. 8. Litliosia aureola (the orange Footman). 9. The Caterpillar. 



