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96 BRITISH MOTHS 
NEMEOPHILA *, Srepnens. (PARASEMIA, Hispner.) 
The species of which this group is composed, in the colours and markings of its wings approaches the true 
Arctiz, but it is distinguished from that genus by its slender form, and especially by the proportions of the joints 
of the very short palpi, of which the first and last joints are nearly globose; the antenne are but slightly 
bipectinated in the males ; the female is larger than the male. The construction, also, of the external organs of 
generation in the males of this genus differs considerably from that of the Arctiz. 

SPECIES 1.—NEMEOPHILA PLANTAGINIS. Prare XIX., Fie. 14, 15. 
Synonymes.—Ph. Bo. Plantaginis, Linn. ; Haworth; Wilkes, Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 7, fig. 71 ; Duncan Brit. Moths, pl. 21, fig. 1. 
pl. 50; Harris Aurelian, pl. 16, fig. g—m; Donovan, 4, pl. 134; Parasemia Plantaginis, Hiibner Verz. bek. Schmett. 
This pretty species varies from 13 to 14 inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are of a black colour, 
with various cream-coloured or buff spots and markings, one being longitudinal towards the hinder margin, and 
terminating in an irregular cross-like marking towards the apex. The hind wings are pale orange, with black 
discoidal markings and an irregular black margin: the body is black, with the shoulder and sides of the abdomen 
buff: the thorax is also striped with buff in the males. There are numerous varieties, both in the tint of the 
pale parts of the wings and in the relative extent of the markings. 
The caterpillar is black, thickly clothed with brown hairs, and with several of the middle segments reddish. 
It feeds on the plantain in the autumn and spring, and the moth (which is far from rare, and widely distributed 
throughout the country ) appears in the beginning of June. 

HERACLIA, Hisner, Verz. (HY PERCOMPA, Srepu. nec Hisy. CALLIMORPHA, Boispvvat.) 
This interesting genus has the head small and squamose; the antenne in both sexes setaceous, elongate, and 
slightly ciliated. The palpi are shorter than the head, and the spiral tongue is distinct and convoluted, although 
not so regularly as ordinary. The thorax is of moderate size, and squamose, and the abdomen is elongated and 
rather slender ; the wings are deflexed, and densely clothed with scales, and the wings are more elongated than 
in most of the preceding genera, The caterpillar is not so thickly clothed with hairs as in the preceding groups. 
SPECIES 1—HERACLIA DOMINULA. Puare XIX., Fie. 16, 17. 
Synonymes. — Phal. (Noctua) Dominula, Linnzus; Albin, | a—e; Donovan, 4, pl. 141; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 7, fig. 67 ; Dun- 
pl. 22, fig. 31, a—d; Wilkes, pl. 38; Harris Aurelian, pl. 40, fig. | can, Brit. Moths, pl. 19, fig. 3 (and 4 variety). 
This beautiful insect measures about two inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a black colour 
glossed with green, with about ten cream-coloured spots of different sizes on each; those which are in the 
discoidal cell being tinged with orange. The hind wings are rich scarlet with black markings ; the thorax is 
black with two orange stripes, and the abdomen scarlet, with the back black. The size of the spots as well 
as the ground colour of the hind wings are very variable ; our figure, (16) however, represents the ordinary 
appearance of the insect; but striking varieties, with the scarlet colour nearly or quite obliterated, are 
represented in Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, vol. vi. p. 541, and by Mr. Duncan, as above referred to. 
The caterpillar is black, with yellow longitudinal and dorsal lines, and numerous bluish-white lateral 
* Derived from the, Greek, in allusion to the species frequenting groves. 

