MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



flattened and seeming as if it had been varnished. On 

 the thin pupa case the wing shields and outKnes of the 

 head and different parts of the body, could be seen. 

 Then a pan of sand was baked, and a box with a glass 

 cover was filled. I laid the pupa on top of the sand, and 

 then dug up the first one, as I was afraid of the earth in 

 which it lay. The case was sound, and in fine condition. 

 All of these pupae hved and seemed perfect. Narrow 

 antennae and abdominal formation marked the big one 

 a female, while broader antlers and the clearly outlined 

 "claspers," proved the smaller ones males. A little 

 sphagnum moss, that was dampened slightly every few 

 days was kept around them. The one that entered the 

 ground had pushed the earth from it on all sides at a 

 depth of three inches, and hollowed an ovial space the 

 size of a medium hen egg, in which the pupa lay, but 

 there was no trace of its cast skin. Those that pupated 

 on the ground had left their skins at the thorax, and lay 

 two inches from them. The horns came off with the 

 skin, and the lining of the segments and the covering of 

 the feet showed. At first the cast skins were green, but 

 they soon turned a dirty gray, and the horns blackened. 

 So from having no personal experience at all with our 

 rarest moth, inside a few days of latter August and early 

 September, weeks after hope had been abandoned for 

 the season, I found myself with several as fine studies 

 of the male as I could make, one of an immense cater- 



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