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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
black on the lower wings. A rosy tint is diffused over the greens, 
grays, and olives which are softly blended and shaded into one another 
in a most charming manner. 
A designer of good taste and refinement might evolve from this 
moth’s velvet coat a dress of modest loveliness for a lady which would 
make her the envy of her fair sisters. The sight of such an insect in 
its perfect beauty having recently spread its wings from the narrow 
confines of its hard, brown chrysalis, is apt to set one wondering why 
Philampelus pandoras. 
our costume makers do not go more to Nature’s art school for their 
suggestions. 
The habits of this insect are much the same as those of other 
long-tongued species of sphinxes, which in the dusk of morning and 
evening extract the nectar from the fresh opened flowers. It is some¬ 
times to be seen flying in circles about the electric lights in cities, but 
I have never known it to be attracted by the light of a common 
kerosene lamp. This is true of most of the sphinx moths. It takes 
the powerful rays of the electric light to dazzle and bewilder them. 
The larva of this moth is large and fleshy, and like the preceding 
it can, by contracting the first three segments, almost completely hide 
