leilus

Updated: June 22, 2025

My clothes were quite wet with the dew. The birds were astir, the cicadas had begun their music, and the Urania Leilus, a strange and beautiful tailed and gilded moth, whose habits are those of a butterfly, commenced to fly in flocks over the tree- tops. Raimundo exclaimed "Clareia o dia!" "The day brightens!"

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons