. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. LEPIDOPTERS: MOTHS. 151 marked by a wavy reddish line, and near the tips of the fore wings tliere is an eye-like spot. The caterpil- lar feeds upon the sassafras-tree. Before making its cocoon, it fastens to the twig, with silken threads, the leaf that is to cover its cocoon, so that it shall not fall in autumn; then it spins its cocoon on the leaf, bend- ing over the edges to cover it. The Luna, or " Pale Empress of the Night,&
. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. LEPIDOPTERS: MOTHS. 151 marked by a wavy reddish line, and near the tips of the fore wings tliere is an eye-like spot. The caterpil- lar feeds upon the sassafras-tree. Before making its cocoon, it fastens to the twig, with silken threads, the leaf that is to cover its cocoon, so that it shall not fall in autumn; then it spins its cocoon on the leaf, bend- ing over the edges to cover it. The Luna, or " Pale Empress of the Night," is of a delicate light green color, and the hind wings are pro- longed into a tail, and each wing has an eye-spot, which is transparent in the centre and surrounded by rings of white, red, yellow, and black. The caterpillar lives on the walnut and hickory, and is bluish green, with a yellow stripe on each side, and yellow stripes across the body. It draws together two or three leaves and spins its cocoon inside of them. The cocoon falls with the leaves in autumn, and the next June the beautiful Luna appears. The Polyphemus Moth is reddish yellow, with a trans- parent eye-spot, divided by a slender line and encir- cled by yellow and black, on each wing, and on the hind wings adjoining the eye-spot is a large blue spot shading into black. The American Tent-Caterpillar Moth expands an. Fig. 282. — Tent-Caterpillar Moth. Fig. 283. — Cocoon of Fig. 282. inch and a half, and is reddish brown, the fore wings crossed by two oblique whitish lines. The caterpillars. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877; Tenney, Abby Amy (Gove) 1836-. New York, Scribner, Armstrong
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