MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



scrutinized to see them. A band of bright canary yellow 

 arched above them, his thorax was covered above with 

 long silky, orange-brown hairs, and striped lengthwise 

 with the same yellow. His abdomen was the longest and 

 slenderest I had seen, elegantly curved like a vase, and 

 reaching a quarter of an inch beyond the back wings, 

 which is unusual. It was thickly covered with long hair, 

 and faintly lined at the segments with yellow. The 

 claspers were very sharp, prominent brown hooks. His 

 sides were dotted with alternating red and orange-brown 

 spots, and his thorax beneath, yellow. The under side 

 of the abdomen was yellow, strongly shaded with orange- 

 brown. His legs and feet were the same. 



His fore-wings were a silvery lead colour, each vein 

 covered with a stripe of orange-brown three times its 

 width. The costa began in lead colour, and at half its 

 extent shaded into orange-brown. Each front wing had 

 six yellow spots, and a seventh faintly showing. Half 

 an inch from the apex of the wings, and against the costa, 

 lay the first and second spots, oblong in shape, and wide 

 enough to cover the space between veins. The third 

 was a tiny dot next the second. The hint of one crossed 

 the next vein, and the other three formed a triangle; one 

 lay at the costa about three quarters of an inch from the 

 base, the second at the same distance from the base at 

 the back edge of the wing, and the third formed the apex, 

 and fell in the middle, on the fifth space between veins, 



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