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WOOD TIGER-MOTH. 
NemeopMla Plantaffims. 
PLATE XXI. Fig. 1. 
Phal. Bomb. Plantaginis, Linn.; Don. iv. PI. 134 Wood 
Tyger-moth, Wiltes, PI. 50 Nemeoph. Plantaginis, Stepi. 
This pretty insect was formerly associated with the 
Arctiae, but has lately been referred to a separate 
genus, under the name of Nemeophila*. The an- 
tenna are bipectinated in the male and serrated in 
the female ; the palpi short, all the joints of nearly 
equal length, and almost globose, the ®minal one 
rather smallest. The proboscis is short, scarcely 
the length of the head ; the thorax not crested, and 
the wings completely opaque with scales. The 
thorax and abdomen are somewhat slender, the 
extremity slightly tufted in the male. The latter 
sex usually measures about an inch and a half 
across the wings, the female being somewhat larger. 
The anterior tvings are deep black above, with a 
yello^vish or cream-coloured stripe running from 
the base towards the apex, where it becomes very 
irregular and forms a kind of cross ; there are like- 
* Derived from tipn a grove, and ftkes a Cover. 
