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collector of moths or millers. These insects seem 

 to be possessed of the idea that they must coimnit 

 suicide and they will even drop down the chimney 

 of the kerosene lamp. 



Among the tent caterpillar moths, under-wing 

 moths, gypsy moths and brown-tailed rrfcoths, one 

 will find the beautiful Bella (Fig. 119), a miller 

 that spreads between one and one and tliree-quarter 

 inches. This so-called tiger moth, with the rest of 

 the group, differs in appearance from the under- 

 wing moth principally because its upper skirts as 

 well as its underskirts are beautifully decorated. 



You will find the beautiful Bella any time from 

 the middle of July to the first part of September. 

 It has naked feelers or antenna?. Its front wings 

 are of a deep yellow, decorated with about six white 

 bands and on each band is a row of black dots. Its 

 under wings are light red with a border of black. 

 It has a white body and the thorax is dotted with 

 black. 



The caterpillar may be foimd late in July and 

 August in the seed pods of the rattlebox. It is 

 yellow with black and white rings (Fig. 120) and 

 the pupa or chrysalis remains a week or ten days 

 in that state before the moth hatches. From all 



