. The Aurelian : a natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed. Lepidoptera. 8g£g£i NEMEOPHILA PLANTAGINIS. 27 THE SMALL TYGER, OR WOOD TYGER MOTH. Plate XVI. fig. g—m. Synonyms. Phal. (Bomb.) Plantaginis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 820. Donovan Brit. Ins. 4. pi. 134. mikes' Eng. Moths, pi. 50. Nemeophila Plantaginis, Stephens. Duncan Brit. Moths, pi. 21. 1. Upper Side. The head is Mack: the thorax is also black, between which is a ring or collar of red. The superior wings are of a dark cream colour, handsomely clouded with large black spots. The inf
. The Aurelian : a natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed. Lepidoptera. 8g£g£i NEMEOPHILA PLANTAGINIS. 27 THE SMALL TYGER, OR WOOD TYGER MOTH. Plate XVI. fig. g—m. Synonyms. Phal. (Bomb.) Plantaginis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 820. Donovan Brit. Ins. 4. pi. 134. mikes' Eng. Moths, pi. 50. Nemeophila Plantaginis, Stephens. Duncan Brit. Moths, pi. 21. 1. Upper Side. The head is Mack: the thorax is also black, between which is a ring or collar of red. The superior wings are of a dark cream colour, handsomely clouded with large black spots. The inferior wings are of a pale orange, tinged with red, and spotted with black. The abdomen of the male is of a dark yellow, as figured at (k) ; but that of the female is of a bright red, as seen at (/). The caterpillar is found on such banks as are mentioned in the description of the fourth plate, for finding the Cream Spotted Tyger caterpillar; and are seen at the same time. They are full fed at the beginning of May, as at (g) ; when they spin a greyish web, wherein they change to a black chrysalis, covered with bloom, as at (A). The moths fly in the woods about four o'clock in the afternoon, and settle in the grass. Expansion of the wings 1|—to If inch. CLISIOCAMPA NEUSTRIA. THE LACKEY, OR BARRED TREE LACKEY MOTH. 18. Donovan Brit. Ins. vol. iii. Plate XVII. fig. a—f. Synonyms. Phalsena (Bomb.) Neustria. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. pi. 95. Albin's Ins. pi. 19. f. 27. e—l. Lasiocampa Neustria, Schrank, Leach. Clisiocampa Neustria, Curtis, Stephens. Upper Side. The antennse are brown, and pectinated. The head, thorax, and abdomen are brown. The superior wings are of reddish brown; having a dark broad bar crossing the middle. I have shewn the female flying at (e); she is paler than the male, which is of a deep fox colour, as described at (/). The caterpillars feed on the briar, white-thorn and black-thorn, and almost all sorts of fruit trees. They proceed from eggs, which are
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