Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 485
hunted the Tro-jan bird-wing, that they fly among the trees andvines at the top of narrow gorges, and that they i i 942 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Aug., rarely come down into the bottom, within reachof the collectors nets. Their caterpillars havenever been seen. At the first glance, one… … THE LARGEST MOTH—NINE AND ONE HALF INCHES FROM TIP TO TIP. member <of the Nymphalid.T, to which belongsthe milkweed butterfly. All the members of thisfamily have an odor that is distasteful to birds.They are, therefore, not molested. The rare andmagnificent Papilio idacoides (Fig. 6) is a…
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