Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . occurring late in the after-noon. It makes its cocoon late in September, and in six oreight daj^s after beginning it= cocoon assumes the pupa state,and in this condition passes the winter. The genus Actias is at once known by the hind wings be-. 298 LEPIUOFTERA. ing prolonged into a long tail which reaches far behind the tipof the abdomen. Actias Luna Linn, is green and the larvaclosely resembles that of Telea; it is, however, banded ob-liquely wi
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . occurring late in the after-noon. It makes its cocoon late in September, and in six oreight daj^s after beginning it= cocoon assumes the pupa state,and in this condition passes the winter. The genus Actias is at once known by the hind wings be-. 298 LEPIUOFTERA. ing prolonged into a long tail which reaches far behind the tipof the abdomen. Actias Luna Linn, is green and the larvaclosely resembles that of Telea; it is, however, banded ob-liquely with yellow instead of white, and spins a cocoon that is-of much the same shape. It is not so hardy a Avorm as thePolyphemus caterpillar. It lives on the walnut, hickory andmaple. In the Museum of the Peabody Academy is a closelyallied and undescribed species from the west coast of Guate-mala, which we would call Actias Azteca. It differs from in its much smaller size, expanding only three and a halfinches, and in the shorter fore wings, the apex being muchrounded and with shorter veins, while the tails on the hindwings are only half as long as those of A. Luna. It also dif-fers in having the origin of the first subcostal venule muchnearer the discal spot than in A. Luna, being very near thatof the second subcostal venule. It is whitish green, withmarkings not essentially differ
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