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that has almost the texture of thin parchment. As soon 
as their cocoons are finished, the 
insects are changed to chrysalids 
(Fig. 190), in which form they re¬ 
main throuo-hout the winter, and 
in the following summer, during the 
month of June, or beo-innino: of 
July, they come out in the winged 
or moth state. The scientific name 
of these moths is Saturnia lo* Un¬ 
like those of the genus Attacus^ 
sit with their wings closed, and covering the body like a 
low roof, the front edge of the under wings extending a 
little beyond that of the upper wings, and cuiwing upwards. 
The two sexes differ both in color and size. The male 
(Fig. 191), which is the smallest, is of a deep or Indian 
Fig. 189. 
Fig. 191. 
yellow color; on its fore wings there are two oblique wavy 
lines towards the hind margin, a zigzag line near the base, 
and several spots so arranged on the middle as to form the 
letters A H, all of a purplish red color ; the hind wings 
are broadly bordered with purplish red next to the body, 
and near the hinder margin there is a narrow curved band 
of the same color ; within this band there is a curved black 
* 7o, a priestess of Juno, in Greece, afterwards became the wife of Osiris, the 
king of Egypt, and received divine honors under the name of Isis. 
