What is "puss moth"

Puss \Puss\ (p[.u]s), n. [Cf. D. poes, Ir. & Gael. pus.]

1. A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

2. A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.

   Puss in the corner, a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one.

   Puss moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of stout bombycid moths belonging to Cerura, Harpyia, and allied genera, esp. Harpyia vinuli, of Europe. The larv[ae] are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages.

Puss Moth may refer to:

• Megalopyge opercularis, a North American moth
• Cerura vinula, a European moth
• de Havilland Puss Moth, an aeroplane built between 1929 and 1933