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[Elise Barry]

I saw a captivating moth this weekend on a butterfly count in MA. I've 
tried unsuccessfully to ID it with my reference books. Naturally, I didn't 
have a camera with me, and didn't have time to make notes since we were 'on 
a mission'. But, I'm hoping someone can help because it was such a 
distinctive critter. It was about an inch long. It had the approximate 
shape of the Virginian Tiger Moth (based on the thumbnails from John 
Himmelman's delightful web site.), but gave a bit flatter image like the 
Banded Tussock Moth. I guess I'm saying it was more like the Banded but the 
wings met evenly in at the body. It's base color appeared to be a light 
cream. It had a fuzzy sort of pattern of first, a deep purple/maroon, then 
a lovely forest green going in towards its body. Can anyone help, despite 
my limited description? Thanks so much.

Elise Barry


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