It has made its way north from South or Central America.
It occurs more frequently in Florida and Georgia than with us, and
there it is known to have been double brooded; so standing on the
records of professional lepidopterists, that gives rise to grounds
for the possibility that in some of our long, almost tropical
Indiana summers, Regalis may be double brooded with us. At any
rate, many people saw the living moth in my possession on this date.
In fact, I am prepared to furnish abundant proof of every statement
contained in this chapter; while at the same time admitting that
it reads like the veriest fairy tale `ever thought or wondered.'
The storm had passed and the light was fine, so we posed the moth
before the camera several times. It was nervous business, for he
was becoming restless, and every instant I expected him to fly,
but of course we kept hiM guarded.
There was no hope of a female that late date, so the next step was
to copy his colours and markings as exactly as possible. He was
the gaudiest moth of my experience, and his name seemed to suit
rarely well.
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