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fore wings expand from two inches to two and a half, are 

 flesh-red, fading to reddish buff, and covered with many 

 stripes and lance-shaped spots of black ; the hind wings are 

 vermilion-red, with seven or eight large black blotches ; the 

 under side of the body is black, the upper side of the abdo- 

 men vermilion-red, with a row of black spots close together 

 along the top of the back. The caterpillar is brown, and 

 pretty thickly covered with tufts of brown hairs. The moth 

 appears here in the latter part of July and August. 



The Arge tiger-moth resembles the preceding, but is 

 smaller, and not so highly colored, and the black markings 

 on the fore wings are smaller, and separated from each other 

 by wider spaces. Its general tint is a light flesh-color, fading 

 to nankin ; the fore wings are marked with streaks and small 

 triangular spots of black ; the hind wings are generally deeper- 

 colored than the fore wings, and have from five to seven or 

 eight black spots of different sizes upon them ; there are two 

 black spots on the collar, and three on the thorax, as in the 

 preceding species ; the abdomen is of the color of the hind 

 wings, with a longitudinal row of black dots on the top, 

 another on each side, and two rows of larger size beneath. 

 The wings expand from one inch and three quarters to two 

 inches. I have taken this moth from the 20th of May till the 

 middle of July. The caterpillar appears here sometimes in 

 large swarms in the month of October, having then become 

 fully grown, measuring about one inch and a half in length, 

 and being at this time in search of proper winter quarters 

 wherein to make their cocoons. They are of a dark green- 

 ish-gray color, but appear almost black from the black spots 

 with which they are thickly covered ; there are three longi- 

 tudinal stripes of flesh-white on the back, and a row of 

 kidney-shaped spots of the same color on each side of the 

 body. The warts are dark gray, and each one produces a 

 thin cluster of spreading blackish hairs. They eat the leaves 

 of plantain and of other herbaceous plants, and it is stated* 



* Abbot's Insects of Georgia, p. 125, pi. 63. 



