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fore Avlngs expand from two Inches to two and a lialr, are 

 flesh-red, flxdhig to reddisli huff, and covered with many 

 stripes and lance-shaped spots of hlack ; the hind wings are 

 vermilion-red, with seven or eight large hlack Llotches ; the 

 mider side of the hody is hlack, the upper side of the ahdo- 

 men vermilion-red, with a row of hlack spots close together 

 along the top of the hack. The caterpillar is hrown, and 

 pretty thickly covered with tufts of hrown hairs. The moth 

 appears here in the latter part of Jvdy and August. 



The Ar(je tiger-moth resemhles the preceding, hut is 

 smaller, and not so highly colored, and the hlack markings 

 on the fore wings are smaller, and separated from each other 

 hy wider spaces. Its general tint is a light flesh-color, fading 

 to nanldn ; the fore wings are marked with streaks and small 

 triangular spots of hlack ; the hind wings are generally deeper- 

 colored than the fore wings, and have from five to seven or 

 eight hlack spots of different sizes upon them ; there are two 

 hlack spots on the collar, and three on the thorax, as in the 

 preceding species ; the ahdomen is of the color of the hind 

 wings, with a longitudinal row of hlack dots on the top, 

 another on each side, and two rows of larger size heneath. 

 The wings expand from one inch and thi*ee quarters to two 

 inches. . I have taken this moth from the 20th of jNIay till the 

 middle of July. The caterpillar appears here sometimes in 

 large swarms in the month of Octoher, having then hecome 

 fully grown, measuring ahout one inch and a half in length, 

 and heing at this time in search of proper Avinter quarters 

 wherein to make their cocoons. They are of a dark green- 

 ish-gray color, hut appear almost hlack from the hlack spots 

 with which they are thickly covered ; there are three longi- 

 tudinal stripes of flesh-Avhite on the hack, and a roAV of 

 kidney-shaped spots of the same color on each side of the 

 hody. The Avarts are dark gi'ay, and each one produces a 

 thin cluster of spreading hlackish hairs. They eat the leaA^es 

 of plantain and of other herhaceous plants, and it is stated* 



* Abbot's Insects of Georgia, ]>. 12.J, ].l. GG. 



