Economic entomology for the . economicentomolo00smit_0 Year: 1896 THE INSECT WORLD. 281 certain small fruits. It is green, and has six rather prominent warts on the thoracic segments, of which four are coral-red in color and the hinder two are yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge. On the rest of the body are other tubercles which are furnished with little clusters of spurs and spines. The cocoon is sometimes spun in bushes, attached to a twig, sometimes at an angle of a fence, or wherever the caterpillar happens to consider it convenient. The resulting moth is dusky brown and powde
Economic entomology for the . economicentomolo00smit_0 Year: 1896 THE INSECT WORLD. 281 certain small fruits. It is green, and has six rather prominent warts on the thoracic segments, of which four are coral-red in color and the hinder two are yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge. On the rest of the body are other tubercles which are furnished with little clusters of spurs and spines. The cocoon is sometimes spun in bushes, attached to a twig, sometimes at an angle of a fence, or wherever the caterpillar happens to consider it convenient. The resulting moth is dusky brown and powdery. Fig. 309. Caterpillar of the cecropia moth. the hinder margins clay-colored, a kidney-shaped dull-red spot with a white centre and a narrow black edging is near the middle of each wing, and beyond the spot is a wavy dull-red band, bordered internally with white. The primaries near the base are dull red, and near the tip is an eye-like black spot within a bluish-white crescent. Several other species occur, all more or less resembling in general appearance the cecropia, and spin- ning much the same kind of cocoon. Of a somewhat different type is the polyphemus, Telea poly- phemus^ which has a green caterpillar without prominent tuber- cles, but with little, black, wart-like processes, giving rise to small, stiff bristles. This feeds upon oak and a variety of other trees, but is rarely abundant, and when forming its cocoon spins up in a leaf, which later drops to the ground. This cocoon is oval in shape and completely closed, differing from that of cecropia and its nearest allies, in which it is open at one end.
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