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ALARIA GAVRJE. 



PLATE XXIV. Fig. 4. 



Phal. Gaurae, Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Geog., pi. 99. 



This delicately tinted moth has some relation to the 

 preceding, but seemingly not so close as to warrant 

 its being included under the same generic appella- 

 tion. The ground colour is white, the wings tinted 

 with red, that colour deepening at the exterior 

 margin of the upper pair, and forming a transverse 

 band beyond the middle not reaching to the hinder 

 extremity ; thorax crested, inclining to yellow. 



The caterpillar (fig. 5) is rather long and slender, 

 having sixteen feet; the under side of the body 

 and legs white, the rest yellow, each segment with 

 a transverse black band in the middle ; head ferru- 

 ginous. It feeds on the Gaura biennis. When the 

 moth settles on the blossoms of that plant, there is 

 such a similarity between its colours and those of 

 the flowers, that it is scarcely possible to distinguish 

 them at a small distance. 



