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Twin-Spotted Quaker, Tyrnau, Tyrwhitt & Thrace

Twin-Spotted Quaker

a European night moth, the Tæniocampa munda. The wings are gray, with two closely approximate and very conspicuous dark spots on the disk of the fore wings.

The caterpillar feeds on the oak.

Tyrnau

a town of Hungary, on the picturesque Waag Valley railway, about 30 miles N. E. of Pressburg. "Little Rome" it used to be called, and not inappropriately, when it was the place of residence of the Hungarian primates.

Its university (1635-1774) was transferred to Pest.

Tyrwhitt

THOMAS, an English classical scholar; born in London, England- March 29, 1730. Among his works are: "Observations on Some Passages of Shakespeare" (1766); a celebrated edition of Chaucer (1773); editions of Isæus' "Orphica" and Aristotle's "Poetics"; critical dissertations on Barbius, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Strabo. He was the original editor of "Rowley's Poems." He died in London, Aug. 15, 1786.

Thrace

EASTERN AND WEST- ERN, divided by the Maritza River.

Both divisions were held by Greece from