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pale buff-white, the outer margin reddish, within it a 
broad border of black veined through with the former 
colour. 
Female : fore wings deep rusty orange, with reddish 
orange veins. Hind wings deep rusty orange. 
Localities for this species are York, Brighton, Lyming- 
ton, Preston, Worthing, Lin wood near Market Rasen, 
Coombehurst, Black Park, Selling, Blandford, Scarbor¬ 
ough, Chilham, Bisterne, Isle of Wight, Peterborough, 
Arran, Stowmarket, Dorchester, Perth, Kilmun, Kil- 
larney, Chat-Moss, Birmingham, Halton, Teignmouth, 
Haldon, Exeter, Carlisle, Plymouth, Epping, Lewes, 
Leicester, Pennance, and Budock near Falmouth. 
The situations where it is found are open heaths. 
The perfect insect appears the latter end of June 
and in July. 
The caterpillar is blackish brown, covered with reddish 
hairs, with a yellow line spotted with red along the 
back. 
The caterpillar is to be found in September, and 
again in May. 
It feeds on the plantain {Plantago lanceolata ), the 
dandelion (Taraxicum dens-leonis ), the scabious (Scabiosa 
sicccisa ), &c. 
CHELONIA PLANTAGINIS. 
WOOD TIGER. 
Plate X. Figure 9. 
This insect measures from a little under to a little 
over an inch and a half or more in width. Male: fore 
wings black, with cream-white streaks, and spots edged 
with dull yellow, one long one from the inner corner 
along but within the lower margin, a short cross one 
