MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



quisite light green colour; the front pair having a heavy 

 costa of light purple that reached across the back of the 

 head: the back pair ended in long artistic "trailers," 

 faintly edged with light yellow. The front wing had an 

 oval transparent mark close the costa, attached to it with 

 a purple Une, and the back had circles of the same. These 

 decorations were bordered with lines of white, black, and 

 red. At the bases of the wings were long, snowy, silken 

 hairs; the legs were purple, and the antennae resembled 

 small, tan coloured ferns. That is .the best I can do at 

 description. A living moth must be seen to form a 

 reahzing sense of its shape and dehcacy of colour. Luna 

 is our only large moth having trailers and these are much 

 longer in proportion to size and of more graceful curves 

 than our trailed butterflies. 



The moth's wings were fully expanded, and it was 

 beginning to exercise, so a camera was set up hastily, 

 and several pictures of it secured. The woman helped 

 me through the entire process, and in talking with her, I 

 learned that she was Mrs. McCoUum, from a village a 

 mile and a half north of ours; that when she reached home 

 she would have walked three miles to make the trip; and 

 all her neighbours had advised her not to come, but she 

 "had a feeling that she would like to." 



"Are you sorry?" I asked. 



"Am I sorry!" she cried. "Why I never had a better 

 time in my life, and I can teach the children what you 



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