. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 424 THE LARGE SWORD-GRASS MOTH. Another moderately winged moth, called the Pale Tussock-moth, was also chosen for an illustration. This name the insect derives from its color and the tufts of hair that decorate the body of the caterpillar like tussocks of grass upon a lield. The caterpillar goes by the popular name of the Hop- dog. The color of the Pale Tussock-moth is light brown- ish-gray, the fore wings being diversified with several marks of blackish-brown, PALE TUSSOCK-MOTH.—Z)(i«/c
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 424 THE LARGE SWORD-GRASS MOTH. Another moderately winged moth, called the Pale Tussock-moth, was also chosen for an illustration. This name the insect derives from its color and the tufts of hair that decorate the body of the caterpillar like tussocks of grass upon a lield. The caterpillar goes by the popular name of the Hop- dog. The color of the Pale Tussock-moth is light brown- ish-gray, the fore wings being diversified with several marks of blackish-brown, PALE TUSSOCK-MOTH.—Z)(i«/cAim w/(/Jtenda. Male, cocoon, caterpillar. j.\ t it (Everything of natural Size.) ^^^ ^Jiape ^nd dimeUSlOUS of which may be seen by reference to the engraving. The hinder wings are much jxiler, and the band is dark brown. The Hera, our next example, belongs to a genus which is known in Europe by the beautiful DoMi?fULA, or Scarlet Tiger-jiotii, with its rich green and scarlet wings. In the present instance, the fore wings are cream-colored with broad markings that look at fii-st sight as if they were black, but when viewed in a good light are seen to be of the deepest imaginable green with a velvety lustre. The hinder wings are rich crimson scarlet, decorated with three or four black spots. This species is found in several parts of Europe. The Sting-moth is a native of New South Wales, and the caterpillar feeds on the leaf of the stringy bark-tree. About the month of Febnuiry it changes into the pupal state, and resides for some time in a curious kind of habitation. Just before it throws oflf the last larval skin, tlie caterpillar weaves a small and close cocoon or case, of an egg-like shape, which it suspends to the stem of a leaf, and therein awaits its final change. The color of the moth is simple, but rather pretty. The fore wings are chestnut, edged with green aud white, and the hinder wings are bluish-gray, edged with yellow and marked, with green, yellow and brown. Th
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