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LEPIDOPTERA. 
line, and on the middle of the wing a large round blue spot, 
havino; a broad black border and a central white dash. The 
fore wings of the female (Fig. 192) are purple-brown, min- 
Fig. 192. 
gled with gray ; the zigzag and wavy lines across them are 
gray, and the lettered space in the middle is replaced by 
a brown spot surrounded by an irregular gray line ; the 
hind wings resemble those of the male in color and mark- 
ings ; the thorax and legs are purple-brown ; and the abdo¬ 
men is ochre-yellow, with a narrow purple-red band on the 
edge of each ring. These moths expand from two inches 
and three quarters to three inches and a half. 
The Saturnia^ inhabiting Massachusetts, is the Maia* 
(Fig. 193) of Drury, or Proserpina^ of Fabricius. The 
Fig. 193. 
moth probably rests with its wings closed, like the lo moth, 
* Maia, in ni 3 ’’thologv, was one of the seven daughters of Atlas; they were 
placed in the heavens after death, and formed the constellation called Pltiadts. 
t Prostrpina was the wife of Pluto, the god of the infernal regions. 
