This eliminates them as possible Limberlost species. Professor
Rowley raised this moth from the eggs I sent him.
The trouble is this: Packard describes the fore-wings as `olive,'
the hind as `olive, and green.' Holland makes no reference to
colour, but on plate X, figure three, page eighty-seven, he
reproduces Regalis with fore-wings of olive-green, the remainder
of the colour as I describe and paint, only lighter. In all the
Regalis moths I have handled, raised, studied minutely, painted,
and photographed, there never has been tinge or shade of GREEN.
Not the slightest trace of it! Each moth, male and female, has
had a basic colour of pure lead or steel grey. White tinged with
the proper proportions of black and blue gives the only colour
that will exactly match it. I have visited my specimen case
since writing the preceding. I find there the bodies of four
Regalis moths, saved after their decline. One is four years old,
one three, the others two, all have been exposed to daylight for
that length of time.
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