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catod to some Greek fraternity or college class, stand 

 as monuments to the muscular ability of visiting 

 students in days gone by. 



A short distance beyond this point we climbed 

 again and entered the "Coon's Council Chamber," a 

 circular room 35 feet in diameter. Here two bands 

 of blackish flint or jasper about four inches in thick- 

 ness, first noted in descending Fat Man's Misery, are 

 very prominent around the walls. A few yards far- 

 ther on we came to "Delta Island," an uneroded mass 

 of limestone, 50 feet long by 20 feet wide, on either 

 side of which one may enter that part of the cave 

 called the "South Branch," which forms the greater 

 portion of the Short Route. 



Between Banditti Hall and Delta Island a small 

 Tineid moth, ' Blabophani'S fcrrugindla Hbn., closely 

 related to the common clothes moth, occurs in num- 

 bers. Its presence in such a place is worthy of espe- 

 cial notice since no other instance is on record of a 

 member of the order Lepidopterci,to which belong the 

 moths and butterflies, being iin inhabitant of caves. 

 This moth was found in May, July and November, 

 close to the floor and always in the 



. . TT^ e vicinity of the decaying remains of 

 Inhabiting J , 



Moth. ' )a ^ 8 an< ^ other refuse matter upon 



which its larvae feed. 



It is one-fourth of an inch or more in length, and 

 its wings expand about two-thirds of an inch. On the 

 head is a tuft of rust-red hairs. The fore-wings are 

 grayish-brown, with a violet tinge iii fresh specimens, 

 and a broad buff margin along the inner edge, which, in 

 repose, forms a conspicuous buff stripe along the back. 



