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SPILOSOMA LUBRICEPEDA. 



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THE CREAM-DOT STRIPE, OR SPOTTED BUFF 

 MOTH. 



Plate XVII. fig. g—l. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Bombyx) Lubricepeda, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 829. Marsham in Linn. Trans. 

 1. pi. 1. f. 2. Donovan Brit. Ins. pi. 16. pi. 568. Albins Ins. pi. 24. f. 35. a—e. 

 Wilkes* Eng. Moths, pi. 43. 

 Spilosoma Lubricepeda, Stephens, Curtis. 



Upper Side. The antennae are pectinated and black. The thorax is cream colour, spotted 

 with black : the abdomen is orange, spotted with black. The superior wings are also of a cream 

 colour, having a row of black spots reaching from the middle of the slip edge to the apex of the 

 wing ; besides a number of other small ones dispersed over the same. The inferior wings are of 

 the same colour, but have not so many black spots. The female is seen at (K)> and the male at (J) ; 

 the latter is known from the female by the broadness of its antennae. 



The caterpillar feeds on various plants in gardens, particularly the Jerusalem artichoke. 

 They become full fed, as at (h), about the middle of August, when they change to a black chry- 

 salis, seen at (i), within a spinning ; and the moths appear in May following. They are very 

 common, and are found sitting against pales, walls, &c. 



Expansion of the wings one inch and a quarter to nearly two inches. 



CETONIA AURATA. THE ROSE BEETLE. 



Plate XVII. fig. m—q. 



Synonyms. Scarabseus Anratus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 557. Martyn Col. pi. 3. f. 27. 

 Cetonia Aurata, Fabricius, Latreille, Leach, Curtis, Stephens. 



The antennas are clubbed, the knobs divided into thin scales. The thorax and elytra are of 

 a lovely golden green ; the former thinly covered with downy hair : the incisures of the abdomen 

 are white. The tibiae of the hinder legs are dentated on the inner side. 



The caterpillars feed under ground, on the roots of plants and shrubs : they proceed from 

 eggs, laid by the female in the earth, where she leaveth them to hatch. The caterpillars are 

 several years before they arrive to their full size, when they appear as at (a), of a cream, or rather 

 tallow colour, having a red head. They change to the pupa, seen at (b\ about March, and 

 the beetle appears in May. The female is seen flying at (p), to shew its transparent wings, 

 and at (o), with the wings closed. The male is shewn at (q) : it is redder than the female, and 

 something smaller. 



Length of the body three-quarters of an inch. 



This is one of our handsomest and commonest beetles, frequenting the blossoms 

 of the rose (on the pollen of which it subsists) as well as other flowers. I have 

 observed it also in the greatest profusion upon the privet when in flower. It flies 

 in the hottest sunshine, wheeling about with its broad membranous wings, its wing- 

 cases being vertically elevated over its back. 



