324 the living animals OL THE WORLD 
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Museum,” may not be 
uninteresting to our 
readers : — 
“ In the first 
month of spring orders 
were issued to the 
forester not to cut 
down the mulberry- 
trees ; and when the 
cooing doves were ob- 
served fluttering with 
their wings, and the 
crested jays alighting 
photo by J„ Peat Millar"] 
f Beith 
DEATH’S-HEAD MOTH 
Remarkable for the skull-like pattern on the back 
upon the mulberry-trees, people were to prepare 
the trays and frames for the purpose of rearing 
the silkworms. 
“ In the spring season, when the empress and 
her ladies had fasted, they proceeded to the east, 
and personally engaged in picking the mulberry- 
leaves. On this occasion the married and single 
ladies were forbidden to wear their ornaments, and 
the usual employments of females were lessened, in 
order to encourage attention to the silkworms. 
When the rearing of the silkworms was completed, 
the cocoons were divided (for reeling) and the silk 
weighed (for weaving), each person being rewarded 
photo by J. Peat Millar"] 
J 
CONVOLVULUS HAWK-MOTH 
^ grey mother ‘with pink bandi on the body 
photo by Saville- Kent^ F.Z.S.y 
Miiford-on-Seu 
DAY-FLYING MOTH 
OF MADAGASCAR 
Remarkable for the brilliancy of 
its colours — green and black, 
’with the hind ’wings brilliant 
coppery red to’wards the 
extremity 
according to her 
labour, in order to 
provide dresses for the 
celestial and ancestorial 
sacrifices. In all this 
none dared indulge in 
indolence. 
“ In the last month 
of summer the order 
was given to the 
female officers to dye 
the silk of various 
