Gloveri could not be told from Cecropiain half-tone reproduction by
any save a scientist, so similar are the markings, but in colour
they are vastly different, and more beautiful. The only living
Gloveri I ever secured was almost done with life, and she was so
badly battered I could not think of making a picture of her. The
wings are a lovely red wine colour, with warm tan borders, and the
crescents are white, with a line of tan and then of black. The
abdomen is white striped with wine and black.
Cynthia has pale olive green shadings on both male and female.
These are imported moths brought here about 1861 in the hope that
they would prove valuable in silk culture. They occur mostly
where the ailanthus grows.
My heart goes out to Cecropia because it is such a noble,
birdlike, big fellow, and since it has decided to be rare with me
no longer, all that is necessary is to pick it up, either in
caterpillar, cocoon, or moth, at any season of the year, in almost
any location. The Cecropia moth resembles the robin among birds;
not alone because he is grey with red markings, but also he haunts
the same localities.
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