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RUBY TIGER-MOTH. 
Phragmatobia fuliginosa. 
PLATE XX. Fig. 3. 
Phal. Noo. fiiliginosa, Linn.; Don. iii. PI. 80.— Ruby Tiger, 
Harris' Aurel. PI. 27 Chelonia fuliginosa, Godart 
Arotia fulig. Aofr.— Phragmatobia fulig. Sieph. 
This genus, like several others in the same family, 
has the scales so thinly placed on the wings that 
these members appear more or less diaphanous. 
This circumstance, taken in connexion with the 
structure of the antenme, which are short and almost 
simple in both sexes, and the very robust body, 
suffices to distinguish it from any other with which 
it has any chance of being confounded. The palpi 
are short and hairy, having the two lower joints of 
equal length ; the head very small. The only 
British species referable to it is the pretty little 
moth named the Ruby Tiger. It varies much in 
colour, but the upper wings are most commonly 
reddish brown, with two black points near the 
middle of each, and the fringe bright red ; the hinder 
pair bright red, becoming black posteriorly, with a 
streak of that colour at the extremity of the discoidal 
