tiger-moth

Cocoons of tussock-moth and tiger-moth under bark, logs, and rubbish in early autumn.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

She is brown in the middle, and black on the head and tail end, Isabella is, and she walks rapidly, as if she had a great deal to do before she could take time to be made over into a tiger-moth.

Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919

He had drawn the Austrian blanket over his shoulders, and among those warring lights he looked more than ever the incarnation of a drugged moth -- a tiger-moth as I thought.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

For instance, the "fever worm," the larva of one of our common moths, -- the Isabella tiger-moth, -- is a noted death-feigner, and will

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

Even the cynic, the man who defiantly wears old and queer clothes, is merely suffering from a perversion of that animal instinct which causes the peacock to swagger in the sun and flaunt the splendour of his train, the instinct that makes the tiger-moth show the magnificence of his damask wing, and also makes the lion erect the horrors of his cloudy mane and paw proudly before his tawny mate.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

The idea struck Turpin that the restless mass of parti-colored shreds and patches, of vivid hues and varied tintings, singularly, though accidentally, disposed to produce such an effect, resembled an immense tiger-moth, or it might be a Turkey carpet spread out upon the grass!

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843