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ST. LOUIS, MO., FEBRUARY, 1870. 



NO. 4. 



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CHARLES V. RILEY. Editor. 



THE CECKOPIA MOTH. 



(Aftacus Ceeropia, Linn.) 



We cannot recall a single insect which has 



been so often sent to us for determination as the 



Horned-caterpillar, which forms the frontis- 

 piece to our first volume. The ground-color of 

 the wings is a grizzled dusky brown with the 

 hinder margins clay-yellow; near the middle 

 of each of the wings there is an opaque kidney- 

 shaped white spot, shaded more or less on the 

 outside with dull red, and edged with black; a 

 wavy dull red band edged inside with white, 

 crosses each of the wings, and the front wings 

 next to the shoulders are dull red with a curved 

 white and black band, and have near their tips 

 an eye-like black spot with a bluish-white cres- 

 cent; the upper side of the body and legs are 

 dull red; the forepart of the thorax, and the 

 hinder edges of the rings of the abdomen are 

 white, and the belly is checkered with red and 

 white. There is considerable variation in the 



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Coloi-s,— Gri?zle<l (liiskv brnwn, rlull i 



Cecropia Moth. It is so conspicuous, whether 

 in the larva, chrysalis or moth state, that it 

 readily attracts attention. The moth (Fig. 59) 

 is really a most elegant insect, and in our mind 

 is second only in splendor to that of the lioyal 



ground-color of individuals, some being quite 

 dark and others quite light, but the female 

 diflFers from the male in nothing but her larger 

 abdomen and much smaller antennje or feelers. 

 This insect belongs to the same family (5ow8?>y- 



