MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



facilitate the emergence of the piip?e from the caterpillar 

 skins dries in a coating, that lielps to harden the cases 

 and protect them. These pupae had burst the skins at 

 the thorax, and escaped by working the abdomen until 

 they lay an inch or so from the skins. 



What a "cast off garment" those skins were! Only 

 the frailest outside covering, complete in all parts, and 

 rapidly turning to a dirty brown. The pupae were laid 

 away in a large box having a glass lid. It was filled 

 with baked sand, covered with sphagnum moss, slightly 

 dampened occasionally, and placed where it was cool, but 

 never at actual freezing point. The following spring after 

 the delight of seeing them emerge, the}' were released, 

 for I secured a male to complete my collection a few days 

 later, and only grew the caterpillars to prove it possible. 



There was a carnival in the village, and for three nights 

 the streets were illuminated brightly from end to end, to 

 the height of Ferris wheels and diving towers. The 

 lights must have shone against the sky for miles around, 

 for they drew from the Limberlost, from the Canoper, 

 from Rainbow Bottom, and the ^ alley of the Wood 

 Robin, their winged creatures of night. 



I know Emperors appear in these places in my locality, 

 for the caterpillars feed on leaves found there, and enter 

 the ground to pupate; so of course the moth of June be- 

 gins its life in the same location. Mr. Pettis found the 

 mated pair he brought to me, on a bush at the edge of a 



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