"If we can find it a mate to-night, it will lay from two hundred and fifty to three hundred eggs to-morrow.
With any luck at all I can raise two hundred caterpillars from them.

I did once before.

And they are worth a dollar apiece." "Was the one I killed like that ?" "No.

That was a different moth, but its life processes were the same as this.

The Bird Woman calls this the King of the Poets." "Why does she ?" "Because it is named for Citheron who was a poet, and regalis refers to a king.