270 CATERPILLARS AND THEIR MOTHS 



The moths are much gayer in colors than the others 

 of their family. They are not alike. The male is 

 bright yellow, the fore wings having a wavy line and 

 marks of purple-brown ; the hind wings being red- 

 purple near the body, and having a large eye-spot of 

 black with a blue pupil crossed by a white line. This 

 eye-spot is surrounded by yellow, then a black line, 

 then yellow, then by a band of red-purple uniting the 

 areas of that color on the fore- and hind edges of the 

 wing. The outer margin of the wing is yellow. 



The female is tawny of body, and has the fore wings 

 of a purple-brown of varying shades crossed by wavy 

 lines of greenish yellow, sometimes really green. The 

 hind wings are like those of the male, except that 

 their outer margin is pale purple-brown. 



The male's antennae are broadly pectinate, the fe- 

 male's very slightly so. On the under side of the fore 

 wing of both male and female is a black eye-spot with 

 a white central dot, and on the under side of each hind 

 wing is a white elongated dot. These moths fly after 

 dark, and may be taken at lights. They do not feed. 



