THE TIGER-MOTHS. 
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that they sometimes make great devastation among young 
Indian corn in the Southern States. 
A much more abundant species in IMassachusetts is that 
which has been called the harnessed moth, Arctia ^halerata 
(Fig. 166) of my Catalogue. 
^ ® ® Fig. 166. 
It makes its appearance from 
the end of May to the middle 
of August, and probably breeds 
throughout the whole summer. 
It is of a pale huff or nankin 
color: the hind wings next to 
the body, and the sides of the body, are reddish; on the fore 
wings are two longitudinal black stripes and four triangular 
black spots, the latter placed near the tip; and these stripes 
and spots are arranged so that the huff-colored spaces be¬ 
tween them somewhat resemble horse-harness ; the hind 
wings have several black spots near the margin; there are 
two dots on the collar, three stripes on the thorax, and a 
stripe along the top of the hack, of a black color ; the under 
side of the body and the legs are also black. The wings ex¬ 
pand from one inch and a half to one inch and three quar¬ 
ters. The caterpillar is not yet known to me. This moth, 
in many respects, resembles one called Phyllira* by Druiy, 
rarely found here, hut abundant in the Southern States ; the 
fore wings of which are black, with one longitudinal line, two 
transverse lines, and near the tip two zigzag lines forming a 
AV, of a huff color. 
The feelers and tongue of the foregoing moths, though 
short, are longer than in the following species, which have 
these parts, as well as the head, smaller and more covered 
with hairs. Some of the latter may he said to occupy the 
centre or chief place among the Arctians, exceeding all the 
rest in the breadth of their wings, the thickness of their 
bodies, and the richness of their colors. Ainono- these is 
the great American tiger-moth, Arctia Americana^ an unde- 
* More properly Phihjra, 
