MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



For the first time in all my experience with moths the 

 female was less than the male. Her wing sweep was 

 scant four inches, her antennae very small compared 

 with his. From base to first marking was not quite half 

 the wing surface, the colour bright red-brown at the base 

 shading browner, then a curved fine of almost black, 

 another of pinkish white, and the remainder of the space 

 to the borders, a light brownish pink field peppered so 

 closely with red wine and white scales, that nearest 

 the costa, the wing showed red wine with a white frost 

 over it, and the other edge pale brown with pink frost- 

 ing. There was the usual rose madder shade at the 

 apex, the straggling M of white, the blue-black eye-spot 

 with its pale blue line outlining the top and the clay 

 border, very light with its escalloped hne of red. The 

 back wing closest the abdomen for about one third of 

 its surface was enclosed with a ragged wavering line of 

 black and another of the whitish pink. This space was 

 brownish in places, tan in others, pink flushed all over, 

 and bore a white mark shaped as it shows in the 

 pictures of the moth. This was surrounded by a very 

 dark line that shaded to the vanishing point into the 

 enclosing colour. The mark was like old yellow ivory. 



Then began a broad band of pale pink over a gray 

 ground, that shaded into a terra cotta red at the border, 

 the whole speckled so closely with white scales, as to 

 give the frosty appearance; most of this at the top, the 



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