The Moths and Butterflies 
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summer. They expand ij inches. There is much variation in color and 
pattern in both moths and caterpillars, many varieties being found in a 
single tree. 
Among the most strikingly colored and patterned Arctians are the numerous 
species of Apanresis (Arctia). A. virgo (PL VI, Fig. 3), a common species 
in the Atlantic states, whose larva feeds on pigweed and other uncultivated 
plants, expands 2 J inches, has black fore wings with the veins broadly marked 
with pinkish yellow, and red hind wings with large angularly irregular black 
blotches. The thorax is colored like the fore wings, the abdomen like the 
hind wings. Sharply angled black spots on a ground of reddish, pinkish, 
salmon, and yellowish characterize almost all the many species in this genus. 
Fig. 593. —Caterpillar of Halesidota tesselata. (After Lugger; natural size.) 
Striking moths are Arachnis picta (PL VIII, Fig. 4), with whitish fore wings 
marked with wavy band-like blotches of pearl-gray, and red hind wings with 
three uneven gray bands; Ecpantheria dejiorata , the leopard-moth of the south 
Atlantic states, and E. muzina , of the southwestern states, both creamy white 
with circular or elliptical black spots or rings thickly scattered over the fore 
wings, but only in a single submarginal series on the hind wings; and Utethe- 
isa bella (PL VII, Fig. 7), a familiar little moth of the Atlantic states with 
