244 A-RCTIADM. 



brown. Fore wing bright red-brown ; thinly sealed ; two black 

 discoidal points ; traces of a red streak below costa ; cilia redder. 

 Hind wing thinly scaled, suffused with fuscous black, the veins, two 

 points on discocellulars, and a diffused terminal band darker ; the 

 inner area, costa except at apex, and cilia bright crimson. 



Fig. 135. — Phragmatohia fidiginosa, (^ . \. 



Ab. 1. horealis. Darker ; hind wing with traces of crimson on inner 

 area only or with the cilia also crimson. — Lapland ; Scotland. 



Ab. 2. fervida. Paler ; hind wing crimson ; the terminal band 

 sometimes reduced to four subterminal spots. — C. Europe ; Greece ; 

 Malta ; Morocco. 



Hah. Throughout Europe, Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll., Greece, Frey & Merlin Colls., Malta (J. J, Walker), 

 Lapland (McLachlan) ; Morocco, Esniir (J: J. Walker) ; W. Asia ; 

 Altai ; Amur ; Cakada, Hudson's Bay {Bamston), Eenfrew Co., 

 Grote Coll. ; U.S.A., N. Atlantic States, N. York, Grote Coll. Exp. 

 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 39 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. p. 275, pi. 75. f. 1. 



Dark grey or brown ; hairs brown, reddish or ochreous ; head 

 black. Food-plants^ grasses, Rumex, Myosotis, etc. 8-4. 



1673. Phragmatohia assimilans. (Plate XLIII. fig. 22.) 



Phragmatohia assimilans, Wlk. iii. 630 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 245. 

 Phraqmatobia assimilans, var. franconia, Slosson, Ent. News, vol. iv. p. 16 

 (1893). 



c? . Head and thorax bright red-brown tinged with crimson ; 

 antennae yellowish white; pectus and legs crimson and brown; abdo- 

 men crimson above, with slight dorsal and lateral series of black 

 spots, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing bright red-brown, 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; two discoidal black points. Hind 

 wing crimson, with two discoidal black points ; a subterminal spot 

 on vein 2 and traces of others towards apex. 



Ab. 1. franconia. Rather darker ; fore wing with obscure fuscous 

 antemedial line angled below cell, a postmedial line incurved below 

 vein 3, and a sinuous subterminal line ; hind wing with subterminal 

 blackish band. 



Hah. U.S.A., mountains of N. York and N. England (Douhleday)j 

 2 d type, 2 d , Zeller Coll. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



