The following morning another, female appeared, and a little later
a male.
The cocoons were long, slender, closely leaf-wrapped and hung from
stout spinning longer than the average leaf stem. The outside leaf
covering easily could be peeled away as the spinning did not seem
to adhere except at the edges. There was a thin waterproof coating
as with Cecropia, then a little loose spinning that showed most at
top and bottom, the leaf wrapping being so closely drawn that it
was plastered against the body of the heavy inner case around the
middle until it adhered. The inner case was smooth and dark inside
and the broken pupa case nearly black.
The male and female differed more widely in colour and markings
than any moths with which I had worked. At a glance, the male
reminded me of a monster Mourning Cloak butterfly. The front wings
from the base extending over half the surface were a dark brownish
black, outlined with a narrow escalloped line of clay colour of
light shade. The black colour from here lightened as it neared
the margin.
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