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THE SPRINKLING MOTH. 
Phalena Liboria. 
PLATE XXXIX. 
Papilio Liboria, Cramer's Dese. des Insects, iv. p- 106, 
pl. 345, fig. v. 
TuE upper wings are of an intense crimson or 
marone colour, with a very broad border of black, 
internally undulated ; and the exterior margins are 
also black ; the lower wings are of a ‘reddish fawn 
colour on their upper half, and black on the lower 
half, with two lines of black on the fawn colour ; 
the head and shoulders are of the same fawn colour 
as the lower wings ; the rest of the body is intense 
black ; the eyes are scarlet, the anterine filiform, 
and the tail fringed, and somewhat fan-shaped. 
This moth inhabits the coasts of Africa, particu- 
larly Sierra Leone. 
