34 G 
LKPIDOPTERA. 
fore wings 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 hlack ; the hind wings are 
vermilion-red, with seven or eight large hlack blotches ; the 
under side of the body is hlack, the upper side of the abdo- 
men vermilion-red, with a row of hlack spots close together 
along the top of the back. The caterpillar is brown, and 
pretty thickly covered with tufts of brown hairs. The moth 
appears here in the latter part of July and August. 
The Arrje, tiger-moth resembles the preceding, but is 
smaller, and not so highly colored, and the black markings 
on the fore wings are smaller, and separated from each other 
by wider spaces. Its general tint is a light flesh-color, fading 
to nankin ; the fore wings are marked with streaks and small 
triangular spots of black ; the hind wings are generally deeper- 
colored than the fore wings, and have from five to seven or 
eight black spots of different sizes upon them ; there are two 
black spots on the collar, and three on the thorax, as in the 
preceding species ; the abdomen is of the color of the hind 
wings, with a longitudinal row of black dots on the top, 
another on each side, and two rows of larger size beneath. 
The wings expand from one inch and three quarters to two 
inches. I have taken this moth from the 20th of May till the 
middle of July. The caterpillar appears here sometimes in 
large swarms in the month of October, having then become 
fully grown, measuring about one inch and a half in length, 
and being at this time in search of proper winter quarters 
wherein to make their cocoons. They are of a dark green- 
ish-gray color, but appear almost black from the black spots 
with which they are thickly covered ; there are three longi- 
tudinal stripes of flesh- white on the back, and a row of 
kidney-shaped spots of the same color on each side of the 
body. The warts are dark gray, and each one produces a 
thin cluster of spreading blackish hairs. They eat the leaves 
of plantain and of other herbaceous plants, and it is stated* 
* Abbot’s Insects of Georgia, p. 12 o, pi. CO. 
