. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Fig. 41.—Larva of Telea poLyphemus. (After Riley.) which is of a beautiful shade of green, is ornamented on the sides by raised lines of silvery white, and is altogether a beauti- ful object, so far as coloration is concerned. The cocoon is in form like that o^ Actias litna, but is much more dense, and, after it has been spun up, is injected by the larva with a fluid, which appears to precipitate a white chalky matter through the fibers after it has dried. Efforts to reel the
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Fig. 41.—Larva of Telea poLyphemus. (After Riley.) which is of a beautiful shade of green, is ornamented on the sides by raised lines of silvery white, and is altogether a beauti- ful object, so far as coloration is concerned. The cocoon is in form like that o^ Actias litna, but is much more dense, and, after it has been spun up, is injected by the larva with a fluid, which appears to precipitate a white chalky matter through the fibers after it has dried. Efforts to reel the silk have hitherto amounted to but little. The insect is double-brooded in the southern States. In Pennsylvania and north- ward it is single-brooded. The moth ranges across the entire continent and into Mexico in the South. We have given in Figure 5 a representation of the Fig. 42.—Cocoon of Teh a polyphcnius. pupa, in Figure 10 a cut (After Riley.) ^^ ^^x^ antenna greatly en- larged, and in Figures 41 and 42 are shown the larva and the cocoon. The latter, as is illustrated in the cut, is spun among leaves, and falls in the autumn to the ground. A number of aberrant forms and local races have been described, and there is considerable variety in the depth of the ground-color of the wings 88. 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 Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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