
98 BRITISH MOTHS 
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SPECIES I.—CALLIMORPHA JACOBHZA. Puare XIX., Fie. 20—21. 
Synonymes.—Phal. (Noctua) Jacobee, Linneus; Haworth; | Donovan, vol. 2, pl. 45; Wood Ind. Ent., t. 8, fig. 91; Curtis Brit. 
Albin, pl. 34, fig.55, e—i ; Wilkes, pl. 55; Harris, Aurelian, pl. 4; | Ent. pl. 499 ; Duncan Brit. Moths, pl. 21, fig. 2. 
This handsome insect varies from 14 to nearly two inches in the expanse of the fore wings. It is of a sooty 
black colour, with a scarlet subcostal bar, and two subapical spots on the fore wings. The hind wings scarlet, 
with a slender black edge. The under side of the wings exactly resembles the upper side in colouring— 
a circumstance of great rarity amongst Lepidopterous insects. 
The caterpillar is dark-golden colour, with black rings, and a few long hairs scattered over the body. 
It feeds on the ragwort in the summer, the perfect insect (which is extremely common throughout the 
country) appearing at the end of April and May. It is of very sluggish habits, flying about in the day-time. 


MILTOCHRYSTA, Hisnrer. (CALLIMORPHA, p. Srepuens, nec Curtis. LITHOSIA, pv. Bors.) 
The difficulty which recent lepidopterists have experienced in their location of the type of this genus, sufficiently 
proves its distinctness from the other types of the present family. I have, therefore, adopted for it Hiibner’s 
name Miltochrysta. From Jacobee, with which it is generically united by Mr. Stephens, it differs in the hairy 
(not silky) clothing of the body, the dilated costal margin of the fore wings, the peculiar markings and colouring 
of the wings, the slender palpi, acute at the tip, the caterpillars densely clothed with hairs, leaf- (not flower-) 
feeders ; and solitary in their habits. Many of these characters will also serve to distinguish it from Lithosia, 
with which it is united by Boisduval. 
SPECIES 1.—MILTOCHRYSTA MINIATA. Puarte XIX., Fie. 22. 
Synonymes.—Phalena (Geom.) miniata, Forster; Haworth ; Bombyx rosea, Fabricius; Ochsenh.; Godart; Boisduval ; 
Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. t. 8, fig. 92; Harris, Aurelian, pl. 30, | Donovan, 2, pl. 40, fig. inf. 
fig. p. Bombyx rubicunda, Wien Verz.; Hiibner Bomb., fig. iii. 
This pretty little insect varies from ten to sixteen lines in the expanse of the fore wings. Its general colour 
is pale-salmon buff, the fore wings being of a more rosy tint, marked at the base with a small black dot, and two 
slender lines running from the costa, followed (beyond the middle) by an oblique row of slender black arches, 
and a row of submarginal black points on the veins. The under side of the abdomen is brown in the males. 
The caterpillar is short and very hairy, the hairs being plumose, verticillated, and of a grey colour, with 
the front of the head orange-coloured. It feeds (according to Fabricius, on the lichens) upon various trees, 
as birch, ash, oak ; the cocoon is of silk, densely woven with the hairs of the caterpillars, and the chrysalis is 
acute ; the perfect insect appears in June. It is not a common species, although widely dispersed, having 
been found in woody places in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire, and Staffordshire. 


DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XX. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Deiopeia pulchella (the crimson-speckled Footman moth). 2. The Caterpillar. 
cf Fig. 3. Eulepia grammica (the feathered Footman). 4. The Caterpillar. 
fe Fig. 5. Eulepia cribrum. 
a Fig. 6. Lithosia flava (the straw-coloured Footman). 
as Fig. 7. Lithosia plumbeolata. 
ee Fig. 8. Lithosia aureola (the orange Footman). 9. The Caterpillar. 

