Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1913 — SHOOTING A BUTTERFLY. [ARTICLE]

SHOOTING A BUTTERFLY.

New Guinea Variety the Largest In the World and Bigger Than • Bird. The largest butterfly known to found only In British New Guinea and specimens are worth anything from SIOO upward. The male measures eight inches across the wings and the tomale not less than eleven inches, a wing spread exceeding that of many small birds. The story of the first dleoovery of this gigantic butterfly Is a curious one, says The Wide World. A natural--Ist saw a specimen perched on the toy of a tree and falling to captors It by any other means finally shot It From the fragments ho decided that the species w«i entirely unknown to science and he forthwith fitted out an expedition at a cost of many thousands of dollars to go In March ot the Insects. Two members of the party fell vlotlms to the Papuan cannibals and another was rescued only in the nick of time. Spite of this Inauspicious commencement to his enterprise, however, the naturalist persevered and ultimately succeeded In obtaining perfect specimens.