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LEPIDOPTERA. 
fore Avings expand from two inches to two and a half, are 
flesh-red, fading to reddish huff, and covered with many 
stripes and lance-shaped spots of black ; the hind wings are 
vermilion-red, witli seven or eight large black blotches ; the 
under side of the body is black, the upper side of the abdo¬ 
men vermilion-red, Avith a roAV of black spots close together 
along the top of the back. The caterpillar is brown, and 
pretty thickly covered Avith tufts of broAvn liairs. The moth 
appears here in the latter part of July and August. ' 
The Arge tiger-moth resembles the preceding, but is 
smaller, and not so hio-hlA" colored, and the black markino-s 
on the fore AA'ings are smaller, and separated from each other 
by AA'ider spaces. Its general tint is a light flesh-color, fading 
to nankin : the fore Avino-s are marked Avith streaks and small 
triangular spots of black; the hind Avings are generally deeper- 
colored than the fore Avino-s, and haA’e from Aa^o to seA’en or 
eight black spots of different sizes upon them ; there are tA\"o 
black spots on the collar, and three on the thorax, as in the 
preceding species ; the abdomen is of the color of the hind 
Avings, Avith a longitudinal roAV of black dots on the top, 
another on each side, and tAvo roAvs of larger size beneath. 
The Avings expand from one inch and three quarters to tAvo 
inches. I haA’e taken this moth from the 20th of ^May till the 
middle of July. The caterpillar appears here sometimes in 
lar 2 :e SAvarms in the month of October, haAnnii then become 
fullA^ iiroAvn, measurinfj; about one inch and a half in length, 
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and being at this time in search of proper Avinter quarters 
Avherein to make their cocoons. ThcA^ are of a dark <xreen- 
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ish-gray color, but appear almost black from the black spots 
Avith AA’hich they are thickly coA^ered; there are three longi¬ 
tudinal Stripes of flesh-AAdiite on the back, and a roAV of 
kidney-shaped spots of the same color on each side of the 
body. The Avarts are dark gray, and each one produces a 
thin cluster of spreading blackish hairs. They cat tlie leaA^es 
of plantain and of other herbaceous plants, and it is stated* 
* Abbot’s Insects of Georgia, p. 125, pi. 63. 
