MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



are others, feeders and non-feeders, forming a list too 

 long to incorporate, for I have not mentioned the Cato- 

 calse family, the fore-wings of which resemble those of 

 several members of the Sphinginte, in colour, and when 

 they take flight, the back ones flash out colours that run 

 the gamut from palest to deepest reds, yellows, and 

 browns, crossed by wide circling bands of black; with 

 these, occasionally the black so predominates that it 

 appears as if the wing were black and the bands of other 

 colour. All of them are so exquisitely beautiful that 

 neither the most exacting descriptions, nor photographs 

 from life, nor water colours faithfidly copied from living 

 subjects can do them justice. They must be seen alive, 

 newly emerged, down intact, colours at their most 

 brilliant shadings, to be appreciated fully. With the 

 exception of feeding or refraining from eating, the life 

 processes of all these are very similar. 



Moths are divided into three parts, the head, thorax, 

 and abdomen, with the different organs of each. The 

 head carries the source of sight, scent, and the mouth 

 parts, if the moth feeds, while the location of the ears is 

 not yet settled definitely. Some scientists place hearing 

 in the antennie, others in a little organ on each side 

 the base of the abdomen. Packard writes: "The eyes 

 are large and globose and vary in the distance apart in 

 different families": but fails to tell what I want to know 

 most: the range and sharpness of their vision. Another 



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