W$ Canadian (SSntomotagist 



VOL. VII. 



LONDON, ONT., MARCH, 1875, 



No. 3 



ON SOME OF OUR COMMON INSECTS. 



THE BEAUTIFUL WOOD NYMPH— Eudryas grata. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Fig. 6. 





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Colors, creamy white and brownish purple 



This moth (see fig. 6) is truly a beautiful creature. Its fore wings are 

 creamy white with a glossy surface, with a wide brownish purple stripe 



along the anterior edge, reaching from the 

 base to a little beyond the middle of the 

 wing. On the outer margin is a broad 

 band of the same hue, widening pos- 

 teriorly, with a wavy white line running 

 through it, composed of minute pearly 

 dots or scales. It is bordered internally 

 with dull deep green. The brownish 

 purple band is continued along the hinder 

 edge, but it is much narrower here and terminates a little before it reaches 

 the base. There are also two brown spots, one round, the other reni- 

 form, near the middle of the wing, often so suffused with pearly white 

 scales as to be indistinct above, but clear and striking on the under side. 



The hind wings are reddish yellow, with a broad brownish purple 

 band along the outer margin, extending nearly to the outer angle, and 

 powdered here and there with a few whitish pearly scales ; there is also a 

 faint dot on the middle of the wing which is reproduced more prominently 

 on the under side. The under surface of both wings is reddish yellow. 

 The head is black, and there is a wide black stripe down the back, 

 merging into a series of spots of the same, which extend nearly the whole 

 remaining length of body. The sides of the body are reddish yellow 

 with a row of blackish dots close to the under surface. The fore legs are 

 beautifully tufted with white, the shoulder covers also are white, and so 

 is the under surface of the body. 



