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Examples
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She put the moth on the man's finger, delicately, for a Catocala is a swift-winged little chap; it spread out its wings splendidly, as if to show him its loveliness; then, darting upward, vanished into the cool green depth of the shrubbery.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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See this cool page on background matching by Catocala relicta.
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"Crimson Underwings" (Catocala promissa and sponsa), to come on the sugar in bright light while yet the last rays of the sun were lighting the westward side of the tree-trunk, when all the rest lay in shadow.
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And she handed me a Catocala moth, and she gave me Kerry.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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Now it was a tiger, with his body banded with yellow and his white opaque delicate wings spotted with black; now the great green silken Luna with long curved tails bordered with lilac or gold, and vest of ermine; now some quivering Catocala, with afterwings spread to show orange and black and crimson; now the golden-brown Io, with one great black velvet spot; and now some rarer, shyer fellow over which we gloated.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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Virginia's childish hand putting into his the gray-winged Catocala, and how the little moth, raising the sad-colored wings worn to suit his surroundings, revealed beneath that disfiguring and disguising cloak the exquisite and flower-like loveliness of the underwings.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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And when the unfortunate Catocala had been safely bottled and they stood examining it in the library, Scott's rapidly diminishing conceit found utterance:
The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899
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Mr. George Dodge assures me that he has taken Catocala abbreviatella at milk-weed blooms about eight o'clock of early July evenings.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Catocala moths feed on juices, and live most of the summer season.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Heaven save me from starting to locate Catocala moths, eggs, caterpillars or pupae on the strength of this information.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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