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HYALOPHORA PROMETHEA. 
PLATE XII. 
Phalsena (Bombyx) Promethea, Drury, Ins., vol. ii. pi. 1 1 male, 
plate 12 fem. ; Gmel. Syst. Ned., 2403 ; Cramer, Pap. Exot., 
t. 75, fig. A. B., and 76, A. B. ; Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. 
d'Afrique et d'Amer., t. 21 ; Peale's Lep. Amer., pi. 3 and 4 ; 
Abbot and Smith, Lepid, Georg., pi. 46. 
Although this fine moth has been figured in several 
general works, we have here given original repre- 
sentations of both sexes, in order to render the illus- 
tration of the transformations and singular economy 
of the spocies more complete. The figures of the 
larva, cocoon, and chrysalis are copied from the 
work of Mr. Titian R. Peale on the Lepidoptera of 
North America, of which, we believe, only a single 
number has been published, and which is scarcely 
known in this country. 
The colour of the male, on the upper side, is 
dark chocolate brown; the exterior margin of all 
the wings light greyish brown, with a narrow waved 
line of black running through it not far from the 
margin ; within this line the colour is lighter ; about 
one-third from the tips, a narrow waved light grey 
line commences, and traverses all the wings, in a 
