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doptera rarely settle on the ground, and are hopelessly 
high flyers, never pausing for rest, save an the topmost 
boughs and flowers of the high trees. Others, though 
flying low, haunt intricate brushwood, where the net 
can only be manipulated with great difficulty, if at all. 
A PYTHON. 
This locale is very characteristic of a most magnificent 
crimson moth, a day-flying insect, which I have seen many 
recurring times, but never been able to secure, for the 
reason that it enters a tangle thorny bush where capture 
is impossible. Here it sits complacently, not fearing to 
