Modest
and lovely Modesta belongs with the Smerinthinae group; and there
are others, feeders and non-feeders, forming a list too long to
irncorporate, for I have not mentioned the Catocalae family, the
fore-wings of which resemble those of several members of the
Sphinginae, in colour, and when they take flight, the back ones
flash out colours that run the gamut from palest to deepest reds,
yellows, and browns, crossed by wide circling bands of black; with
these, occasionally the black so predominates that it appears as
if the wing were black and the bands of other colour. All of them
are so exquisitely beautiful that neither the most exacting
descriptions, nor photographs from life, nor water colours faithfully
copied from living subjects can do them justice. They must be seen
alive, newly emerged, down intact, colours at their most brilliant
shadings, to be appreciated fully. With the exception of feeding
or refraining from eating, the life processes of all these are
very similar.
Moths are divided into three parts, the head, thorax, and abdomen,
with the different organs of each.
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