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HYALOPHORA PROMETHEA. 



PLATE XII. 



Phalaena (Bombyx) Promethea, Drury, his., vol. ii. pi. 1 1 male, 

 plate 12 fem. ; Gmel. Syst. Nat., 2403 ; Cramer, Pap. EjcoL, 

 t. 75, fig. A. B., and 76, A. B. ; Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. 

 d^Afrique et d'Amer., t. 21 ; Peale's Lep. Amer., pi. 3 and 4 ; 

 Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., pi. 46. 



Although this fine moth has been figured in several 

 general works, we have here given original repre- 

 sentations of both sexes, in order to render the illus- 

 tration of the transformations and singular economy 

 of the species more complete. The figures of the 

 larva, cocoon, and chrysalis are copied from the 

 work of Mr. Titian R. Peale on the Lepidoptera of 

 North America, of which, we believe, only a single 

 number has been published, and which is scarcely 

 known in this country. 



The colour of the male, on the upper side, is 

 dark chocolate brown ; the exterior margin of all 

 the wings light greyish brown, with a narrow waved 

 line of black running through it not far from the 

 margin ; within this line the colour is lighter ; about 

 one-third from the tips, a narrow waved light grey 

 line commences, and traverses all the wings, in a 



