(used more generally, of arthropods)

a corn bin

Underside: ground-colour similar, both fore and hind wings with extensive irroration of black scale which varies considerably in amount: in some specimens it is very dense and gives a glackish tint to the ground-colour, especially on the hind wing.

[…] there came the wailing howl of a wolf — a cry of hungerful savageness that died away in echoes of infinite sadness.