Flame Carpet

"Coloured nearly as in munitata but the median band is light red and with a conspicuous black bar at its proximal edge and usually with the distal edge also — at least in its anterior part, conspicuously black. Under surface more weakly marked. - ab. coarctata ab. nov. [Prout] has the median band greatly narrowed, usually very dark, about as in the corresponding aberration of ferrugata. - islandicaria Stgr. has the ground-colour more weakly marked, often whiter, the median band also pale in its centre but commonly with the black edgings widened. Iceland." The larva is relatively powerful, naked except for a few short bristles and brownish with a bright lateral stripe.