. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 186 AECTIAD^. 1561. Tyria jacobaeae. Noctua jacohacB, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 511 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. (1) p. 87, pi. 91. ff. 6-8 ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. pi. 499 ; Steph. III. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 90; Staud. Cat. p. 56 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 351. Callimorpha senecionis, Grodt. Lep. Fr. ir. p. 377, pi. 42. f. 4 (1822). Euchelia jacohcBa, ab. Jlavescens, Thierry Mieg, Le Nat. ser. ii. vol. iii. p. 181 (1889). Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with a sl


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 186 AECTIAD^. 1561. Tyria jacobaeae. Noctua jacohacB, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 511 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. (1) p. 87, pi. 91. ff. 6-8 ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. v. pi. 499 ; Steph. III. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 90; Staud. Cat. p. 56 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 351. Callimorpha senecionis, Grodt. Lep. Fr. ir. p. 377, pi. 42. f. 4 (1822). Euchelia jacohcBa, ab. Jlavescens, Thierry Mieg, Le Nat. ser. ii. vol. iii. p. 181 (1889). Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with a slight bluish gloss. Fore wing fuscous ; a crimson subcostal fascia ending in a spot near base on costa and one towards apex just below costa ; a fascia on inner margin from close to base to middle; terminal spots on veins 6 and 2. Hind wing crimson, the costal area and cilia Fig. 108.— Tyria jacob(B(B, (^. \. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the terminal spots conjoined into a baud and conjoined to the subcostal fascia. Ab. 2. flavescens. The crimson replaced by yellow. Hah. Europe except Polar region, Norway, Germany, Switzer- land, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Asia Minor; Armenia ; Altai. Exp. 40-48 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 37 ; Barratt, Lep. Brit. ii. p. 248, pi. 69. f. 4. Orange ; hairs black, scanty; each somite with a loroad black ring ; head black, tubercle i. anterior, ii. posterior, iii. lateral; iv. small, stigmatal, posterior; v. sub ventral; vi, subventral posterior with two hairs, vii. with four hairs, viii. with one hair. Food- plants, Senecio jacobcea, S. vulc/aris, and Tussilago farfara. Genus EUCHL^NIDIA, nov. Ty E . iranscisa. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned to above vertex of head and roughly scaled ; antennce of female bipectinate, with moderate branches ; tibiae "with the spurs short; build slender. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8,9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell.


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