MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



with Linnaeus and since his time you can make your 

 selection from the works of Druce, Grote, Strecker, 

 Boisduval, Robinson, Smith, Butler, Femald, Beuten- 

 muUer, Hicks, Rothschild, Hampson, Stretch, Lyman, 

 or any of a dozen others. Possessing such an imposing 

 array of names there should be no necessity to add to 

 them. These men have impaled moths and dissected, 

 magnified and located brain, heart and nerves. See 

 Packard's "Guide to the Study of Insects," page thirty- 

 five, figure forty -four. After finishing the interior they 

 have given to the most minute exterior organ from two 

 to three inches of Latin name. From them we learn 

 that it requires a coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus, 

 ungues, pulvillus, and anterior, medial and posterior 

 spurs to provide a leg for a moth. I dislike to weaken 

 my argument that more work along these lines is not 

 required, by recording that after aU this, no one seems 

 to have located the ears definitely. Some believe 

 hearing hes in the antennae. Hicks has made an 

 especial study of a fluid filled cavity closed by a mem- 

 brane that he thinks he has demonstrated to be the seat 

 of hearing. Leydig, Gerstaecker, and others believe 

 this same organ to be olfactory. Perhaps after all, there 

 is room for only one more doctor of science who will 

 permanently settle this and a few other vexing questions 

 for us. 



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