cosoinia] 



ARCTIADAE 



blackish, tubercles yellowish, hairs brown ; dorsal line orange- 

 yellow ; spiracular whitish ; head black : on grasses, Erica, etc.; 

 8-5. 



18. Phragmatobia, Stph. 



Head rough-haired. Ocelli present. Antennae in <J ciliated, 

 with longer setae at joints. Palpi 

 moderately long, porrected, rough- 

 haired. Thorax densely hairy 

 above and beneath. Abdomen 

 hairy. Femora hairy beneath, 

 tibiae smooth-scaled. Forcwings: 

 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 out of 9, 11 

 connected with 9. Hindwings : 

 3 and 4 sometimes connate, 5 

 approximated, 6 and 7 connate 

 or stalked, 8 from middle of 

 cell. 



A rather small genus, mainly 

 inhabiting northern temperate 

 regions. Larva with dense tufts 

 of rather long hairs. 



1. P. fuliginosa, L. 28-34 mm. 

 spotted. Forewings reddish-brown, more thinly scaled in disc ; 

 a black diseal dot. Hindwings rose-pink ; costal half suffused 

 with thinly strewn black scales, appearing grey ; two obliquely 

 placed blackish diseal dots; a terminal blackish sull'used some- 

 times interrupted fascia; cilia rose-pink. 



Britain to the Orkneys, N. Ireland, common; Europe, VV. 

 and N. Asia ; 5, 6. Larva dark grey or brown, hairs brown, 

 reddish, or ochreous ; head black : on grasses, Rumex, Myosotis, 

 etc.; 8-4. 



19. Diachisia, Hb. 



Characters of Phragmatobia, but antennae of £ bipectinatcd 

 to apex ; forewings with 11 separate. 



This genus is of some extent, and nearly cosmopolitan. 

 Larva with tufts of moderate or long hairs. 



1. Dorsum of forewings crimson or ferruginous 



5. rustsula. 

 „ not crimson or ferruginous 2. 



2. Abdomen orange-yellow . • ■ :i : 



,, not orange-yellow . . 1. mendtca. 



nation of 1'hTagmutobia fidiginosu. 

 Abdomen red, black- 



