MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



at the edges. There was a thin waterproof coating as 

 with Cecropia, then a Httle loose spinning that showed 

 most at top and bottom, the leaf wrapping being so 

 closely drawn that it was plastered against the body of 

 the heavy inner case aronnd the middle until it adhered. 

 The inner case was smooth and dark inside and the 

 broken pupa case nearly black. 



The male and female differed more widely in colour 

 and markings than any moths with which I had worked. 

 At a glance, the male reminded me of a monster Mourn- 

 ing Cloak butterfly. The front wings from the base 

 extending over half the surface were a dark brownish 

 black, outlined with a narrow escalloped line of clay 

 colour of light shade. The black colour from here light- 

 ened as it neared the margin. At the apex it changed to 

 a reddish brown tinge that surrounded the typical eye- 

 spot of all the Attacus group for almost three fourths of 

 its circumference. The bottom of the eye was blackish 

 blue shading abruptly to pale blue at the top. The 

 straggle M of white was in its place at the extreme tip, 

 on the usual rose madder field. From there a broad 

 clay coloured band edged the wing and joined the dark 

 colour in escallops. Through the middle of it in an irreg- 

 ular wavy line was traced an almost hair-fine marking 

 of strong brown. The back wings were darker than the 

 darkest part of tlie fore-wings and this colour covered 

 them to the margin lightening very slightly. A clay 



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