18-2 
NYMPHATAD.E. 
Time of Appearance. — -Tiily. 
Habitat. — Lapland (at Qnickjock, ]Valle)i(ireii) ; a rare and 
local species -supposed by some to be a variety of the following, 
but apparently perfectly distinct. Besides Lapland, Staudinger 
gives the Altai as a habitat for this species. 
Larva. — Unknown. 
3. — M. Maturna, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 480; Faun. Suec. 280; 
Hbst. 275, L4; Fit. 307; H. S. 132. 
Cynthia, Esp. 37, 2 ; Hiib. 1, 2. 
Expands from 1-45 to 1-75 in. All the wings bright reddish 
fulvous, blackish at the base. The hind margins are black, and 
have immediately internal to them a row of black crescentic spots. 
The fore wings have several rows of coalescing spots of a light 
yellow colour, surrounded by black. The hind wings have spots of 
a similar character, and also some near the base. Under side of all 
the wings bright reddish fulvous, with a hind-marginal row of 
crescentic yellow spots ; fore wings whth a patch of wdiitish yellow 
extending across the centre of the wings from the costa ; in the 
discoidal cell are two yellow spots, the external one being surrounded 
with black. Hind wdngs with a very distinct and broad light 
yellow band running across their centre, divided throughout its 
whole length by a narrow black line, but not spotted ; midway 
between this and the base are three or four irregularly-shaped 
light yellow spots, and at the base is a similar ly-colonied smaller 
one. Head, thorax, and abdomen black above, bright fulvous 
beneath ; antennae tipped with fulvous. The female is larger than 
the male, and somewhat brighter on account of the black markings 
not being so distinct. PI. XLIII., 1. 
Time op Appearance. — June. 
Habitat. — Open places in woods throughout Central Europe 
(excepting Great Britain and Denmark), the South of Sweden, 
Bussia (excepting the l^olar portions), and Central Asia to the 
Altai. 
Larva. — Black ; head and spines black, wdth pale yellow spots 
arranged in three rows. On plantain and scabious in May. 
