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over the side, and as it were drags the willing insect down to the 
base of the cocoon, where, firmly fixing its pretty tiny feet, the 
moth rests to gather strength for the next task, that of expanding 
and drying its wings. The whole process of birth does not occupy 
a minute. 
The moth (see P]. XV.) has long been familiar to us in collec- 
tions of insects sent over from China; the head and antennez are 
greyish-brown, the latter strongly pectinated in the male, less so 
in the female; the thorax and abdomen are of a lighter greyish- 
yellow; at the junction of the thorax and abdomen is a broad 
ereyish-white transverse band, on the first abdominal segment 
another narrower band arched, and then follow six pair of white 
tufts of scales, with six larger tufts intermediate closely approxi- 
mating, the last two segments are tinged with greyish-white. 
On the underside are two rows of ocelli on either side the 
abdomen, having a greenish-brown centre, a purple-brown ring, 
and an outer white margin; of these rows the superior is the most 
definite ; the feet are graceful, light greenish-brown underneath, 
above margined at the sides with greyish-white fringe. 
Two or three marginal brown lines, becoming streaky in the 
lower wing, border their hind margins, and are somewhat inter- 
rupted before reaching a black ocellus, placed near the faleate tip 
of the upper wing. This ocellus shades into purple inferiorly and 
is surmounted by a white crescent; a zig-zag line runs from it to 
the tip. Transversely across the wings runs a narrow white 
streak, wavy where it admits the approach of the large lunules, 
bounded internally by a narrower dark green brown line, exter- 
nally by a broad rosy band shading off into a lighter hue; outside 
of which is a broad greenish band dusted over with small dusky 
atoms; within the white transverse lines, which nearly form an 
equilateral triangle, is a space of a darker greenish hue, containing 
four lunules, one in each wing ; the outer tip of each lunule rests on 
the curve of the rosy band already described, interrupting the white 
line. These lunules are at their outer portion denuded of scales 
and transparent, in their middle are yellowish-brown, darkening 
towards the edge into the ground colour of the wings; from the 
inner tip of the lunules in the upper wings run two white streaks, 
one to the costa nearly at right angles, the second towards the 
base of the wing ina straight line with the lower margin of the 
Junules, and continuous with the white band at the junction of the 
thorax and abdomen. 
In the lower wing there is a similar white streak, arched mid- 
way between the lunule and the base of the wing, continuous with 
