Photo by W. Saville-Kent, F.Z.S., Milford-on-Sea.
DAY-FLYING MOTH OF MADAGASCAR.
Remarkable for the brilliancy of its colours—green and black, with the hind wings brilliant coppery red towards the extremity.
"In the spring season, when the empress and her ladies had fasted, they proceeded to the east, and personally engaged in picking the mulberry-leaves. On this occasion the married and single ladies were forbidden to wear their ornaments, and the usual employments of females were lessened, in order to encourage attention to the silkworms. When the rearing of the silkworms was completed, the cocoons were divided (for reeling) and the silk weighed (for weaving), each person being rewarded according to her labour, in order to provide dresses for the celestial and ancestorial sacrifices. In all this none dared indulge in indolence.
Photo by J. Peat Millar] [Beith.
CONVOLVULUS HAWK-MOTH.
A grey moth, with pink bands on the body.
