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CREAM-SPOT TIGER-MOTH. 
Jrctia VSlica. 
PLATE XX. Fig. 2. 
Phal. Bomb. Villica, Linn.; Donovan, ii. PI. 71 Bombyx 
Villicus, Haworth . — Eyprepia Villica, Ochsen; Curtis 
Cream Spot Tyger-moth, IFi/te, PI . 37 ; Harris' Aurel. 
PI. 4 Arctia Villica, Steph. 
This genus compreliends some of the most striking 
and richly coloured moths with which we are ac- 
quainted. Deep hlack, crimson, and yellow are the 
prevailing colours ; and these are combined in 
strongly contrasted spots and bars in such a man- 
ner as to produce a most agreeable effect. The 
most common species is the beautiful Great Tiger- 
moth (' Arctia caja J, found occasionally in aU parts 
of Britain, produced from a larva of much more 
frequent occurrence, well known throughout the 
country as the hairy worm, and in the south of 
Scotland by the name of hairy ottbil. The generic 
name likewise hears allusion to the hairj' caterpillar, 
being derived from afxroc a hear. The distinctive 
characters are to he found in the palpi, which have 
the basal joint longer than the second ; in the an- 
tennae being rather long, bipectinated in the males, 
and serrated in the females, each of the radii and 
