AGRIPPINA. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna; setaceous, gradually diminishing from 
the base to the tip. 
tFings (when at rest) commonly deflected. 
(Flight diurnal.) 
Specific Character. 
Whitish Moth, clouded with brown variega¬ 
tions ; the pattern nearly similar on both 
surfaces; the inferior tinged with violet- 
colour. 
The large and elegant moth represented on the 
present plate is a native of Surinam, and appears to 
have been first described and figured by the cele¬ 
brated Madam Merian, in her history of the insects 
ot that country. The caterpillar or larva feeds on 
the leaves of the Gamboge-tree, and is of a fine 
green, variegated with large, transverse, black bands; 
but some time before its assuming the form of a 
chrysalis it is observed to exhibit a remarkable al¬ 
teration of colour, the green changing to a beautiful 
red. This species is commonly, but mistakenly, 
quoted 
