. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . Caterpillar of the cecropia moth. tlie 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-
. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . Caterpillar of the cecropia moth. tlie 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- phennis, 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 np in a leaf, which later drops to the ground. This cocoon is o^-al 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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