. The American entomologist and botanist. LOmS. TE RMS Two dollars per annum in advance. CHARLES V. RILEY. Editor. THE CECROPIA MOTH. {Attorns Cecropia, Linn.)We cannot recall a single lii,sect which ha,sbeen so often sent to us for determination as the [Fig. ,51 Horned-caterpillar, which forms the frontis-piece to our first volume. The ground-color ofthe wings is a grizzled dusky brown with thehinder margins clay-yellow; near the middleof each of the wings there is an opaque kidney-shaped white spot, shaded more or less on theoutside with dull red, and edged with black ; awavy dull red band e
. The American entomologist and botanist. LOmS. TE RMS Two dollars per annum in advance. CHARLES V. RILEY. Editor. THE CECROPIA MOTH. {Attorns Cecropia, Linn.)We cannot recall a single lii,sect which ha,sbeen so often sent to us for determination as the [Fig. ,51 Horned-caterpillar, which forms the frontis-piece to our first volume. The ground-color ofthe wings is a grizzled dusky brown with thehinder margins clay-yellow; near the middleof each of the wings there is an opaque kidney-shaped white spot, shaded more or less on theoutside with dull red, and edged with black ; awavy dull red band edged inside with wliite,crosses each of the wings, and the front wingsnext to the shoulders are dull red with a curvedwhite and black band, and have near their tipsan eye-like black spot with a bluish-white cres-cent; the upper side of the body and legs aredull red; the forepart of the thorax, aiid thehinder edges of the rings of the abdomen arewhite, and the belly is checkered with red andwhite. There is considerable variation in the]. Colora—Grizzled dusliv l)rnwii, dull Cecropia Moth. It is so conspicuous, whetherin the larva, chrysalis or moth state, that itreadily attracts attention. The moth (Fig. 59)is really a most elegant insect, and in onr mindis second only in splendor to that of the Uyal ground-color of individuals, some being quitedark and others quite light, but the femalediflfers from the male in nothing but her largerabdomen and much smaller antennse or insect belongs to the samefamiiy(£omA^- 98 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. cidcB) as the well-kiiowu Silk-worm, and is, infact, one of our very best native American Silk-worms. The genus Attacus—meaning elegant—was founded by LinnsBus, and our moth receivedits specific name from the same author. AsCecropia was the ancient name of tlie city ofAtliens, and as it has puzzled some naturaliststo divine why Linuseus applied this name toour moth, we give the following explanationby Dr. Fitch: The great le
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