[John]

Elise - It's tough to go by descriptions - even with some of the "easy"
ones.  John Snyder has an excellent website that shows many of the species.
If you click on http://alpha.furman.edu/~snyder/leplist/macroleps1.htm it
will bring you to the arctiidae, which is what you suspect this moth to be.
It'll take some browsing, but you may find it.

And thanks for the compliment.

John

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  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu]On Behalf Of Elise Barry
  Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:35 PM
  To: CT Leps
  Subject:


  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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