. Elementary entomology . Fig. 77. Web of tent caterpillars which has been riddled by birds. (Reduced) (Photograph by Weed) splits down the back, is sloughed off into one end of the cocoon, and the transformation to a brown, oval object, tho^ p?ipa, is accom- plished. The pupa is about an inch long, and the surface markings of the solid shell outline the legs and wings of the adult moth, but otherwise there is no indication of any relationship to the larva or to the adult, and, had we not seen it emerge from the larval skin, it would be difificult to believe that it is the same animal. Moth. I
. Elementary entomology . Fig. 77. Web of tent caterpillars which has been riddled by birds. (Reduced) (Photograph by Weed) splits down the back, is sloughed off into one end of the cocoon, and the transformation to a brown, oval object, tho^ p?ipa, is accom- plished. The pupa is about an inch long, and the surface markings of the solid shell outline the legs and wings of the adult moth, but otherwise there is no indication of any relationship to the larva or to the adult, and, had we not seen it emerge from the larval skin, it would be difificult to believe that it is the same animal. Moth. In about three weeks the pupal shell splits open and the adult moth works its way out of one end of the cocoon. Like all moths
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