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THE HEBALD-MOTH. 
the Herald, from an idea that its appearance gave 
indication of the approach of winter. The expan- 
sion of the wings is from an inch and a half to an 
inch and a quarter ; the thorax and anterior wings 
reddish-grey, ivith an irregular red patch at the 
base, a round white spot on the disk of each, and 
two oblique transverse white bands, one a little 
below the middle, the other a little behind it : from 
the outer hand to the apex the colour is grey with 
minute dusky points, the space traversed by a veiy 
faint -waved whitish streak. The rufous patch is 
sprinkled with minute yellow dots, and there is a 
distinct row of small white marks along the central 
nervure. The underwings are hro-wnish, becoming 
darker towards the hinder margin; the abdomen 
inclining to red with a few faint dorsal marks ; the 
thorax Avith a dusky line on the hack and a trans- 
verse streak of the same colour. Legs greyish ; the 
tarsi white, spotted -with rust-red. Tire caterpillar, 
which is slender and naked, is green with a white 
line on each side, and red stigmata. — The principal 
generic distinctions of Scoliopteryso are thelengthened 
palpi clothed with long capitate scales, the radical 
joint shortest, the other tw'o rather long and stout 
and nearly of equal length ; antennas short and 
strong, bipectinated to the apex in the males, slightly 
serrated in the females ; proboscis rather short, head 
and thorax each -with a crest anteriorly ; anterior 
Avings deeply emarginate on the hinder edge and 
somewhat dentate ; the hinder pair very slightly 
dentate. 
