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The Living Animals of the World 



Museum," may not be 

 aninteresting to our 

 readers : — 



"In the first 

 month of spring orders 

 were issued to the 

 forester not to cut 

 down the mulberry- 

 trees ; and when the 

 cooing doves were ob- 

 served fluttering with 

 their wings, and the 

 crested jays alighting 



death's-head moth. 



Keniaikable for the skull-like pattein on the back. 



\_BMk. 



upon the mulberry-trees, people were to prepare 

 the trays and frames for the purpose of rearing 

 the silkworms. 



" In the spring season, when the empress and 

 her ladies had fasted, they proceeded to the east, 

 and personally engaged in picking the mulberry- 

 leaves. On this occasion the married and single 

 ladies were forbidden to wear their ornaments, and 

 the usual employments of females w'ere lessened, in 

 order to encourage attention to the silkworms. 

 When the rearing of the silkworms was completed, 

 the cocoons were divided (for reeling) and the silk 

 weighed (for weaving), each person being rewarded 



iluAubji .1. Vnd Mdl<:r] 



[llcilh. 



CONVOLVULUS HAWK-MOTH. 

 A grey iiiotli, with pink bands on the body. 



riiUibi/ W. SavUle-Ktiit, F.Z.i., 

 Milford-on-Sca. 



DAY-FLYIXG MOTH OF 

 MADAGASCAH. 



Remarkable for the brilliancy of 

 its colours— green and black, Mitk 

 the hind wini^ brilliant coppery 

 red towards the extremity. 



according to her 

 labour, in order to 

 provide dresses for the 

 celestial and ancestorial 

 sacrifices. In all this 

 none dared indulge in 

 indolence. 



"In the last month 

 of summer the order 

 was given to the 

 female officers to dye 

 the silk of various 



