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THE BRIMSTONE-MOTH 
Rumia Cratagata, 
PLATE XXVII, Fig. 1. 
Phal. Geom. Cratagata, Lim, — Geom. Crattegaria, Hatvorth. 
Brimstone-moth, WiUtes, PI. 80 Yellow or Brimstone, 
Harris . — Romia Cratmgata, Duponchd, Steph. 
Ix expands firom an inch to an inch and two-thirds ; 
the colour deep sulphur yellow, the anterior edge of 
the upper tvings tvith two narrow reddish-brown 
spots towards the base, a tliird near the middle 
produced internally and having a white mark in the 
centre, and a pretty large one on the apex ; behind 
the middle there is a transverse row of faint dusky 
marks, and two or three others near the base. The 
hinder wings have a small dusky spot on the disk, 
sometimes with a white centre, and several evanes- 
cent (^sky marks, some of them forming a kind 
of band posteriorly. The fnnge is nearly the same 
colour as the wings, and marked in certain places 
mth reddish-brown spots. 
The caterpillar, which is elongate and cylindrical, 
is pale bro■^vn, with a bluish spot on each side of 
the neck, and the spiracles on the sixth segment 
