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THE EMPEROR MOTH. 
Phalena Pavonia. 
PLATE XXXY. 
Phalena pavonia, Donovan's Brit. Ins. i. p. 5, pl. 1.— 
Harris’s Aurelian, pl. xxv. fig. g, h, p. 48.—Linn, Syst. 
Nat. ii, p. 816.—Saturnia Payonea Minor, (Schrank,) 
Rennie’s Conspectus, p. 36. 
Tue antenne are feathered ; it has no trunk ; 
the wings are expanded, horizontal, rounded, entire, 
with a large eyelike spot in the centre of each ; 
the first reddish brown, wayed ; the second orange. 
Those of the male two inches and a half to five- 
sixths, and in the female two inches and a half 
to three inches and a half, and of a gray colour. 
The upper wings have a half-closed eyelet, the tip 
purplish, with one or two red spots; the lower 
wings with a half-closed eyelet, and haying a gray 
posterior band, and the lower margin somewhat 
purple. The antennee of the male are broader than 
in the female, and the wings of the female larger, 
waved with black and white, and bordered with 
yellow. Length, aninch ; breadth, two inches and 
a half. 
The caterpillar is green above, the segments 
marked by black rings, in which are a row of yellow 
