CHELONIA VILIEA¬ 
GRE AM-SPOTTED TIGER. 
Plate XL Figure 2. 
This fine insect measures from a little over two 
inches to nearly two and a half inches in expanse. 
Male: fore wings very deep rich velvet-black, with 
generally about eight conspicuous cream-white or 
yellowish-white spots. Hind wings rich orange-yellow, 
with four, or five, or six black spots, and an irregular 
black patch or mass of spots at the lower corner. The 
body is rich orange colour on the upper part, spotted 
with a row of black dots, and more or less red towards 
the end. The head velvet-black; the thorax velvet-black 
with a cream-white spot on each side near the front. 
Localities for this species are Falmouth, Blandford, 
Bristol, Exeter, Lewes, Plymouth, Epping, Charmouth, 
Blean Wood near Canterbury, at both of which places 
I have taken it; Faversham, Emsworth, Barnstaple, 
Bisterne, Kingsbury, Lymington, West Wickham, West 
Looe, Brighton, Teignmouth, Worthing, Truro, Tenter- 
den, &c., &c. 
The situations where it is found are lanes, hedge-sides, 
and open places in woods. 
The perfect insect appears in June. 
The caterpillar is black, with brown hair all over it. 
Head dull red; legs the same. 
, The caterpillar is found in September, and lives 
through the winter till May. 
It feeds on the ragwort (Senecio Jacobcea), chick-weed 
{Cerasteum vulgatum ), and avariety of other plants. 
