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HYALOPHORA CECROPIA. 



PLATE XL 



PhaL (Bombyx) cecropia, Linn. Cramer, Pap. Exot, iv. t. 42, 

 f. A. B. ; Fair. Ent. Syst., iii. 1. p. 408, No. 4 ; DruryS Exot. 

 Ins., i. pi. 18, fig. 2 ; Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., i. pi. 46. 



We have given figures of H. cecropia in all its 

 stages, as a very characteristic example of the con- 

 spicuous genus to which it belongs ; and they will 

 afford, in connexion with similar details of several 

 nearly related species, a very accurate notion of the 

 metamorphoses of the Saturnise. It is one of the 

 larger kinds, measuring upwards of half a foot 

 between the tips of the wings. Antennae broadly 

 pectinated, black ; head small and red, the neck 

 white; thorax clothed with reddish-brown hairs 

 of considerable length ; abdomen with alternate 

 bands of white and orange-brown, the latter edged 

 behind with black. The groimd colour of the wings 

 is dark reddish brown ; the anterior pair with the 

 base orange-brown, that colour bounded exteriorly 

 by a narrow whitish band suddenly bent towards 

 the anterior margin, but becoming obsolete be- 

 fore reaching it ; disk rusty brown, with a large 

 white kidney-shaped spot, margined with black and 

 tinged with reddish-brown ; beyond this there is a 

 broad transverse reddish orange band; the extre- 



