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CHELONIA CAGA. 
COMMON TIGER. LARGE TIGER. GARDEN TIGER. 
Plate XL Figure 1. 
This insect measures from a little over two to three 
inches in expanse. Male: fore wings very rich cho¬ 
colate-red brown, with cream-white markings meandering 
through it, but very variable in extent, the brown in 
some superseding the white more or less. Hind wings 
deep red, with more or less of a tinge of orange, and 
with from four to six spots of rich purple-black, three 
of them in a row within the outer margin, and the others 
or other (for they are sometimes confluent) between them 
and the inner corner; a narrow bar, again, frequently 
interposes between them from the upper margin. 
Localities for this species, which is abundantly dis¬ 
tributed through the country, are York, Nafferton, Char- 
mouth, Worcester, Nunburnholme, Edinburgh, Falmouth, 
&c., &c. 
The situations where it is found are gardens, lanes, 
and a variety of others. 
The perfect insect appears in July. 
The caterpillar is black, with rather long silky whitish 
hairs on the back, and reddish brown ones on the 
sides, the head black, as are also the legs. 
The caterpillar lives through the winter, from October 
to the end of May or beginning of June. 
It feeds on the nettle (Urtica urens ), and other plants, 
the lettuce, strawberry, &c. 
Several very remarkable varieties of this species have 
been captured. 
