ORDER IV.—MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 165 
nevertheless, seen flying about from morning until evening, 
displaying her beauty to delight the eye of man throughout 
the day, or floating joyously 
with her fellows upon the sa- 
ble wing of night. Her ele- 
Figure 39. 
gant dress proclaims her one 
of Nature’s high nobility. It 
is not a sixpenny or shilling 
calico, the livery of servitude ; 
nor even a French calico, the 
dress of the modest middle-class in easy circumstances ; but 
she is clothed with the most gorgeous silken apparel, of 

The Beautiful Deiopeia. 
which no Miss of our most fashionable boarding-schools, 
nor even the most dashing and cunning coquette in Paris, 
would be ashamed. 
This moth has fore wings of a deep yellow color, spotted 
with black ; while its hind wings are scarlet, bordered with 
a trimming resembling black lace. The wings expand about 
one anda half inches. The body is white and covered with 
black dots. 
Like all of Nature’s beauties, this insect makes its home 
among the flowers. ‘Throughout the summer and early 
autumn months, along the banks of almost all our inland 
streams, where grow the golden lilies and white Solomon’s- 
seals, the sweet-scented roses and blue lupins, with yellow 
wood-sorrels and azure forget-me-not’s, this little moth may 
generally be seen flying from blossom to blossom, living on 
their nectared sweets, and dying only to leave its future 
offspring there. 
Its caterpillar usually lives upon the plant called in Eu- 
rope Forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis), which grows every 
where on the banks of springs and brooks, and, presented to 
a young lady in either France or Germany, is considered 
“une declaration @amour;” but in America this plant is 
known by the name of scorpion-grass. 
