MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



Cecropia has several "Cousins," Promethea, Angul- 

 ifera, Gloveri, and Cynthia, that vary sUghtly in marking 

 and more in colour. All are smaller than Cecropia. The 

 male of Promethea is the darkest moth of the Limberlost. 

 The male of Angulifera is a brownish gray, the female 

 reddish, with warm tan colours on her wing borders. She 

 is very beautiful. The markings on the wings of both are 

 not half-moon shaped, as Cecropia and Gloveri, but are 

 oblong, and largest at the point next the apex of the 

 wing. 



Gloveri could not be told from Cecropia in half-tone 

 reproduction by any save a scientist, so similar are the 

 markings, but in colour they are vastly different, and 

 more beautiful. The only living Gloveri I ever secured 

 was almost done with life, and she was so badly bat- 

 tered I could not think of making a picture of her. The 

 wings are a lovely red wine colour, with warm tan bor- 

 ders, and the crescents are white, with a line of tan and 

 then of black. The abdomen is white striped with wine 

 and black. 



Cynthia has pale olive green shadings on both male 

 and female. These are imported moths brought here 

 about 1861 in the hope that they would prove valuable 

 in silk culture. They occur mostly where the ailanthus 

 grows. 



My heart goes out to Cecropia because it is such a 

 noble, birdlike, big fellow, and since it has decided to be 



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