American Royalty 105 



REGAL MILLER 



The next member of this royal family is the 

 Regal miller. These millers deserve their royal 

 title, as they do nothing for a living except eat 

 and wear good clothes, in truth, they wear beautiful 

 clothes. The Regal moth's name is Cith-e-ro'ni-a 

 re-ga'lis to-day, to-morrow is may be Kaiser or 

 Tzar regalis, but it will probably remain the Regal 

 moth to-day and to-morrow. 



A scientific name is easily cut out and for- 

 gotten, but the common name is difficult to change ; 

 it becomes part of the folk-lore and is not easily 

 forgotten and I will wager that not one of my 

 readers will forget the name of the Emperor miller 

 nor the Regal miller after he has caught one of 

 these beautiful specimens, identified it and placed 

 it in his collection. 



Citheronia, a Greek poet, and Regalis, royal. 

 Thus you see this might be written, a royal Greek 

 poet, but, if the royal Greek poets had horns like 

 the caterpillar of the Regal moth, they must have 

 been more comical than handsome. 



The Regal moth lays large amber-colored eggs, 

 very much like those of the Emperor moth, al- 

 though they are somewhat bigger and bordered 



