Insects injurious to fruits . inter. Late in May or early in Junethe prisoner escapes from its cellas a large and most beautiful moth, the male pf which isshawn in Fig. 185, the female in Fig. 186. The antenure arefeathered in both sexes, but more widely so in the male thanin the female. The wings, which measure, when expanded,from five to six inches across, are of a rich buif or ochre-yellow color, sometimes inclining to a pale-gray or creamcolor, and sometimes assuming a deeper, almost brown the base of the wings they are crossed by an ir-Iegular pale-white band, margined with
Insects injurious to fruits . inter. Late in May or early in Junethe prisoner escapes from its cellas a large and most beautiful moth, the male pf which isshawn in Fig. 185, the female in Fig. 186. The antenure arefeathered in both sexes, but more widely so in the male thanin the female. The wings, which measure, when expanded,from five to six inches across, are of a rich buif or ochre-yellow color, sometimes inclining to a pale-gray or creamcolor, and sometimes assuming a deeper, almost brown the base of the wings they are crossed by an ir-Iegular pale-white band, margined with red; near the outermargin is a stripe of pale purplish white, bordered within byone of deep, rich brown, and about the middle of each wingis a transparent eye-like spot, with a slender line across itscentre; those on the front wings are largest, nearly round,margined with yellow, and edged outside with black. Onthe hinder wings the spots arc more eye-like in shape, arebordered with yellow, with a line of black edged with blue. ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 173 above, and the whole set in a large oval patch of rich brown-ish black, the widest portion of it being above the eye-spot,
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