THE PROSERPINA MOTH. 
Phalena Prosérpina. 
PLATE XXVI. 
Phalena Proserpina, Shaw’s Naturalist’s Miscellany, pl. 998. 
Tue whole wings of this interesting phalena are 
of a deep black, which changes into a beautiful 
glossy blue by the reflection of light ; both the 
upper and lower wings are provided with a very 
broad sesquialterous waved band of pale straw 
yellow, which is greatly broader on the lower ones ; 
both sets of wings have a crescent-shaped black 
spot, with an ochre coloured centre, situated in 
the bands ; those of the Superior wings are placed 
near the top of the upper inner margins, and those 
of the lower wings towards the interior margins ; 
the entire exterior margins of the wings, are sup- 
plied with a fine fringe ; the body is the same colour 
as the wings, with four transverse tufts of a colour 
between scarlet and orange. The head and upper 
part of the thorax is pale straw yellow; the an- 
tennee are fringed, and of an ochre yellow. 
The caterpillar is of a pale gamboge yellow, with 
a crimson head and tail, and each side of the upper 
surface furnished with an undulated, longitudinal, 
