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Milk-weed Moth

Euchaetias egle

Plate XVI — Milk-weed Moth is Fig. 21
Plate XVI — Milk-weed Moth is Fig. 21

The figure given above in the text and those given on the plates will suffice for the identification of this common insect, which ranges from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and beyond. The larva feeds upon Milk-weed (Asclepias).