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.  At the apex it changed to a reddish brown tinge that surrounded the typical eye-spot of all the Attacus group for almost three-fourths of its circumference.  The bottom of the eye was blackish blue, shading abruptly to pale blue at the top.  The straggle M of white was in its place at the extreme tip, on the usual rose madder field.  From there a broad clay-coloured band edged the wing and joined the dark colour in escallops.  Through the middle of it in an irregular wavy line was traced an almost hair-fine marking of strong brown.  The back wings were darker than the darkest part of the fore-wings and this colour covered them to the margin, lightening very slightly.  A clay-coloured band bordered the edge, touched with irregular splashes of dark brown, a little below them a slightly heavier line than that on the fore-wing, which seemed to follow the outline of the decorations.

Underneath, the wings were exquisitely marked, flushed, and shaded almost past description in delicate and nearly intangible reddish browns, rose madder on grey, pink-tinged brown and clay colour.  On the fore-wings the field from base to first line was reddish brown with a faint tinge of tan beside the costa.  From this to the clay-coloured border my descriptive powers fail.  You could see almost any shade for which you looked.  There were greyish places flushed with scales of red and white so closely set that the result was frosty pink.  Then the background would change to brown with the same over-decoration.  The bottom of the eye-spot was dark only about one-fourth the way, the remaining three-fourths, tan colour outlined at the top with pale blue and black in fine lines.  The white M showed through on a reddish background, as did the brown line of the clay border.  The back wings widespread were even lovelier.  Beginning about the eighth of an inch from the top was a whitish line tracing a marking that when taken as a whole on