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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW YORK 
GARDEN TIGER-MOTH. ITS ASTONISHING VARIETIES OP COLOR. 
ing obliquely forward and downward from the lower front part of the head 
of a darker brown with longer and less dense hairs of'a red color along 
their underside and around the mouth. Coiled up between them is the 
Bpiral tongue, of a white color, and only equaling them in length when 
extended. The antennae reach a third of the length of the wings. They 
resemble slender, tapering threads, white, their tips brown, their basal 
joint red, and a brown stripe along their underside. In the males they are 
pectinated, each joint sending off two short brown branches. The thorax 
is globular and brown, with a broad white band in front, occupying the 
base of the collar and extending backward across the shoulders and uniting 
with the white stripe or spot upon the middle of the base of the wings. 
The collar is edged all round with crimson red, forming a slender margin 
along the lower edge of the white band and on each side crossing this band 
and forming a narrow arched band above it. The base of the thorax is 
also slenderly margined with red, which color widens on each side into a 
small spot. The sides of the thorax are pale brown, with a pened of red 
hairs in the axilla of the wings. The abdomen is bright ochre yellow with 
a row of brownish black spots along the middle of the back, the spots 
transverse, four or five in number, the hind ones largest. The underside 
is pale brown with the edges of the segments yellow. The wings are 
brown, slightly paler towards their hind ends. Their base is white, which 
color near the middle o^ each wing is prolonged backwards into a long 
acute point, forward of which are two long egg-shaped brown spots, placed 
side by side, and on the outer edge are two larger brown spots slightly 
parted from each other by a curved line, with a fifth spot on the inner edge. 
Towards the middle of each wing on the outer edge are two large whito 
spots of an irregularly triangular form. Beyond these, crossing the wing 
transversely from the outer margin to the inner angle is a wavy white band 
which is thickened at its ends. From the middle of this band a curved 
branch extends forward and inward to the inner margin;, and from the 
same point on the opposite side of the band another branch extends back¬ 
ward, nearly to the hind edge, when it abruptly turns outward and forward 
and then outward and backward, reaching the outer margin of the wing 
forward of the tip. In the closed wings these markings upon their hind 
part are observed to be beautifully symmetrical, having some resemblance 
to the Greek letter omega with a bar placcdjiorizontally across its middle. 
The lower wings arc deep ochre yellow with four large round blackish blue 
spots having a black margin, whereof three are situated in a row forward 
of the hind margin, the inner one of these being the smallest, and. the 
fourth one, which is slightly transverse, is placed forward of the centre. 
The undersides are colored and marked similarly but much more pale and 
dim. The legs are brown with the thighs crimson except upon their under¬ 
sides, and the shanks and hind feet are yellow on their undersides. 
In respect to its colors and spots, this moth is truly protean, varying to 
an extent which is most astonishing. Thus the fore wings are sometimes 
black instead of brown, with all vestiges of the white spots and rivulets 
upon them vanished. In other instances they are of the suine bright yellow 
