MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



shelter, unknown to their kind that home elsewhere. 

 The test is not fair enough to be worth consideration. If 

 these same pupse had been as conspicuously placed as 

 on the fence, on any edible groivth, in the same location 

 as the fence, and then left to the mercy of playing 

 children, grazing stock, field mice, snakes, bats, birds, 

 insects and parasites, the story of what happened to 

 them would have been different. I doubt very seriously 

 if it would have proved the point those lepidopterists 

 started out to make in these conditions, which are the 

 only fair ones under which such an experiment could be 

 made. 



In this work I became intensely interested in the 

 location of the auditory organs and the extent of mouth 

 development among moths that do not feed. I asked 

 Professor Rowley to send me a list of reliable works that 

 discussed moth anatomy, from which I telegraphed my 

 book dealer for the three most highly recommended. 

 On their prompt arrival I took up an imposing big vol- 

 ume, for which I paid five dollars, its contents devoted 

 exclusively to moths, and eagerly turned to anatomy. 

 There I found this: "The reader who desires to ascertain 

 the names and the function of the various organs of the 

 body of moths may considt in this connection the cor- 

 responding portion of the 'Butterfly Book,' in which the 

 principal facts have been fully set forth as to the diurnal 

 lepidoptera. " In other words, "Telegraph again and 



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