MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



so interested in this that I slightly chloroformed the 

 female, and made a study of the pair. The male was 

 fully ahve and alert, but they had not mated, and he 

 would not take wing. He clung in his natural position, 

 so that he resembled a big fly, on the smooth side of the 

 sheet of corrugated paper on which I placed the female. 

 His wings folded over each other. The abdomen and 

 the antennae were invisible, because they were laid flat on 

 the costa of each wing. 



The female clung to the board, in any position in 

 which she was placed. Her tongue readily uncoiled, 

 showing its extreme length, and curled around a pin. 

 With a camel's-hair brush I gently spread her wings to 

 show how near they were the size of the male's, and how 

 much larger her body was. 



Her fore-wings were a trifle lighter in colour than the 

 male's, and not so broken with small markings. The 

 back wings were very similar. Her antennae stood 

 straight out from the head on each side, of their own 

 volition and differed from the male's. It has been my 

 observation that in repose these moths fold the antennae 

 as shown by the male. The position of the female was 

 unnatural. In flight, or when feeding, the antennae 

 are raised, and used as a guide in finding food flowers. 

 A moth with broken antennae seems dazed and helpless, 

 and in great distress. 



I have learned by experience in handling moths, that 



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