MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



coloured band bordered the edge, touched with irregular 

 splashes of dark brown, a little below them a slightly 

 heavier line than that on the fore- wing, which seemed to 

 follow the outline of the decorations. 



Underneath, the wings were exquisitely marked, 

 flushed, and shaded almost past description in delicate 

 and nearly intangible reddish browns, rose madder on 

 gray, pink tinged brown and clay colour. On the fore- 

 wings the field from base to first line was reddish brown 

 with a faint tinge of tan beside the costa. From this to 

 the clay coloured border my descriptive powers fail. You 

 could see almost any shade for which you looked. There 

 were grayish places flushed with scales of red and white 

 so closely set that the result was frosty pinko Then the 

 background would change to brown with the same over- 

 decoration. The bottom of the eye-spot was dark only 

 about one fourth the way, the remaining three fourths, 

 tan colour outlined at the top with pale blue and black 

 in fine lines. The white M showed through on a reddish 

 background, as did the brown line of the clay border. 

 The back wings widespread were even lovelier. Begin- 

 ning about the eighth of an inch from the top was a 

 whitish line tracing a marking that when taken as a 

 whole on both outspread wings, on some, slightly resem- 

 bled a sugar maple leaf, and on others, the perfect profile 

 of a face. There was a small oblong figure of pinkish 

 white where the eye would fall, and the field of each space 



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