142 GRAPE-VINK. LEAVES — GARTERED PLUME. MOTH. 



lite a garter, and as its wings are also banded, the name ^erwce/i- 

 dactylus or Gartered Plume, may appropriately be given to it. 



Like other species of ihis family, this moth is very agile, rapid, 

 and impetuous in its motions, when disturlied, bounding from 

 side to side of fthe cage in which it is confined, almost wiih the 

 Telocity of lightning, for a moment, and then resting, clinging 

 with its fiiur anterior feet to the top of the cage, its wings spread 

 and its body hanging perpendicularly downwards and swinging 

 to and fro with the wind, with its long hind legs extended as if to 

 protect the sides of the abdomen, and the feet nearly in conta<jt 

 below its tip. It is of a tawny yellow color, the fore wings with 

 three white spots and beyond these two white bands, the fringe 

 white wilh a blackish spot on the middle and another on tlie apex 

 of the inner margin. 



Tliis moth measures 0,35 to the tip of its abdomen, and its wings expand 0.85. Its 

 antennae are 0.20 long, black, with a row ol small white spots on each side running 

 their whole length. The palpi, which curve upwards in front of the head to a level 

 with its crown, resembling two little horns, are tawny brown or rust-colored in front, 

 their bases whitish. The thorax is tawny yellow, white at -its base.. The ihree first 

 segments of the abdomen have a white spot at their bases and the tKird has two 

 diverging white stripes which reach its apex. The fourth segment is without spots 

 and of a darker color, its apex blackish. The remaining segments have two parallel 

 white stripes whicli are faint or obsolete on the base of eacll segment. Beneath, the 

 abdomen is snowy white with two tawny yellow stripes, or tawny yellow with three 

 rows of large white spots confluent into stripes at the base. Legs white; haunches 

 wilh a tawny yellow stripe on their outer side; four anterior legs with black stripes- 

 middle shanks with a projecting spine-like tuft of tawny yellow scales above t. eir 

 middle, and encircled at tip by a darker colored tuft; hind shanks with a similar tuft 

 at each pair of spines; spines black beneath and at base, those of the hind shanks 

 black at their tips also. Feet white, apical joints of the four anterior ones and a 

 Ijand on the apex of each of the other joints tawny yellow. Fore wings bifid the 

 cleft reaching almost to their middle, tawny-yellow, with two oblique white bands 

 crossing both th«ir forks, the space between these bands aften rusty brown • a trans- 

 verse white spot at the commencement of the cleft, edged on its inner side with rusty 

 brown; two white spots inside of this, the first towards the outer the second upon 

 the inner margin. Fiinge white with a blackish spot on the midile and a larger one 

 at the apex of the inner-margin. The inner lobe of the wing between the black spot 

 and its tip notched in the form of a semicircle, with a blacklst line upon the base of 

 the fringe in this notch. Hind wings trifid. the anterior cleft reaching their middle, 

 the posterior one extending to the base; rusty brown, tawny yellow at base; hind 

 lobe slender, white and fringed with white with a broad blackish band near its tip. 



