114 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



words, their eye-spots are colored blue with a black 

 border to them; their bodies are fawn-colored and 

 the gentlemen carry widely pectinated (comb-like) 

 antennae while the ladies carry simple antennae. 



There are many other notched-wing moths, but 

 we will leave you to hunt them and will figure only 

 one more, the pretty and common Purblind Myops 

 (Fig. 103). Both these moths, the blind one and 

 the purblind one, have eye-spots on their hind 

 wings. The same eye-spot we referred to before 

 as Nature's beauty spot, but maybe Nature is using 

 sign language like the Indians and the Gypsies, 

 and this is her Swastika, her good-luck sign. The 

 caterpillar to the Purblind Myops (Fig. 104) has 

 spots along its sides like buttons. Of course it has 

 a horn on its tail and is fond of rearing its head 

 and arching its neck, so to speak, like a checked-in 

 horse. 



