MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



two languages, reared twelve lusty children, and never 

 saw an ocean. 



So by degrees the Lady Bird of the garden resolved it- 

 self into Deilephila Lineata. Deile — evening; pliila — 

 lover; lineata — lined; the lined evening lover. Why 

 "evening" is difficult to understand, for all my life this 

 moth occurs more frequently with me in the fore and 

 early afternoon than in the evening. So I agree with 

 those entomologists who call it the "white-lined morning- 

 sphinx." It is lovely in modest garb, delicately lined, but 

 exceedingly rich in colour. It has the long slender wings 

 of the Sphingid moths, and in grace, and tirelessness 

 of flight resembles Celeus, the swallow of the moth 

 family. 



Its head is very small, and its thorax large. The eyes 

 are big, and appear bigger because set in so tiny a head. 

 Under its tongue, which is a full inch long, is a small 

 white spot that divides, spreads across each eye, and runs 

 over the back until even with the bases of the front wings. 

 The top of the head and shoulders are olive brown, dec- 

 orated with one long white line dividing it in the middle, 

 and a shorter, on each side. The abdomen is a pale 

 brown, has a straight line running down the middle of 

 the back, made up of small broken squares of very dark 

 brown, touched with a tiny mark of white. Down each 

 side of this small line extends a larger one, wider at the top 

 and tapering, and this is composed of squares of blackish 



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