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very curious form difficult to describe in words, but figured in 

 Mosely's "Varieties of British Lepidoptera" (Chelonia, pi. vi., 

 fig. 4). Others with yellow hind-wings, or more or less suffused 

 •with dark, have been occasionally reared. Though it is not 

 difficult to obtain two broods in confinement, I am not aware 

 that this has ever happened in our district naturally. 



PHRAGMATOBIA, Steph. 



20. Phragmatobia fuliginosa, (Linn.). Euby Tigee. 



Phragmatohia fuliginosa. Staint. Man., vol. i., p. 146. 



Arctia ,, Kewm. Erit. Moths, p. 34. 



Phragmatohia ,, Barr.Lep.Brit. Is.,vol.ii.,p.274. 



„ „ Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 39. 



Larva. Buck., vol. iii., pi. xlv., fig. 1 ; O.Wils., pi. xii., 



fig. 1, la, lb, and Ic. 



Another common species, perhaps even more ubiquitous than 

 the last, as the larvse, being fond of ling and heather, the species 

 occurs freely on the moors and heaths, as well as on coast sand- 

 hills, railway and other dry banks, etc. Mr. Gardner says '' the 

 larva spins its cocoon upon the top of the ling, where it is readily 

 observed, and large numbers of the pupae are devoured by birds.'* 

 Mr. Pickard of Wolsingham bred a specimen in which yellow 

 was substituted for red in the hind- wings, a change of colour 

 which appears to obtain occasionally with nearly all those species 

 which bear any shade of red. The form occurring with us 

 approaches the var. Borealis, the hind-wings being much suffused 

 with black. At Seaton Snook, a small range of sand-hills near 

 the mouth of the Tees, surrounded by the sea at high water, a 

 dwarf form of this species is found, with still less red on the 

 hind-wings. Probably it is the result of in-breeding for many 

 years. 



This insect is given on every list I have received, and I do 

 not therefore give localities. It is always single brooded here, 

 the larva hybernating full fed, but in more southern localities 

 a portion of the brood generally feeds up quickly and produces 

 the imagines the same year. 



