CARADKININA [abotia 



2. A. villica, L. 50-58 mm. Thorax black, with a whitish 

 spot on shoulder. Abdomen orange, posteriorly crimson, with 

 black dorsal dots. Forewings black; about eight whitish- 

 yellowish spots or blotches, sometimes variably confluent. 

 Hindwings orange ; four or five small black spots ; an apical 

 black orange-spotted blotch. 



England, Roxburgh, local ; Europe, WC. Asia ; 6. Larva 

 black, hairs dark brown ; spiracles sometimes white ; head deep 

 red : on Myosotis, Plantago, Rumex, etc. ; 8-5. 



3. A. caja, L. 50-75 mm. Thorax dark brown, collar red- 

 edged. Abdomen red, black-spotted. Forewings very dark 

 brown ; a narrow anterior fascia, two costal spots, two posterior 

 narrow fasciae anastomosing in middle, and a submedian streak 

 ochreous-whitc, variably interrupted or partly connected. Hind- 

 wings red ; about six large variable deep indigo-blue black- 

 edged spots, finely orange-margined. 



Britain to the Orkneys, Ireland, very common ; Europe, 

 N. Asia, N. America ; 7. Larva black ; hairs very long, black 

 and grey, on sides browner, on 2 and 3 reddish-brown ; head 

 black : on Urtica, Plantago, etc. ; 8-5. 



21. Callimorpha, Latr. 



Head with appressed hairs. Ocelli present. Antennae in 

 3 ciliated, with longer setae at joints. Palpi moderate, 

 porrected, rough - scaled beneath. Thorax hairy beneath. 

 Abdomen smooth-scaled. Tibiae smooth-scaled. Forewings : 

 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 sometimes connected with 9. Hindwings : 

 3, 4, 5 approximated, G and 7 connate or short-stalked, 8 from 

 J of cell. 



A small genus, scattered over the northern hemisphere. 

 Larva with tufts of hairs. 



Forewings with pale fasciae and dorsal streak . 1. hera. 

 ,, „ scattered spots . . 2. dominula. 



1. C. hera, L. 52-58 mm. Head and collar light orange, 

 black-marked. Thorax very dark olive-green, streaked with 

 whitish-yellowish. Forewings very dark olive-green, markings 

 whitish-ochreous ; a short subdorsal streak from base ; a dorsal 

 streak throughout; three straight fasciae, first very oblique, 

 not reaching dorsum, second and third confluent beneath, 

 running to tornus and enclosing two black spots, tornus and 

 extremity of third orange ; one or two additional marks on 

 costa. Hindwings red, with three or four black spots. 



Devon, perhaps introduced but now well established ; WC. 



