A.N.Caudeii. 



INSECTS AFFECTING SHADE TREES. 



INJURING THE LEAVES. 



The Cecropia Emperor-moth. 



Platysamia cecropia. 



People are often puzzled during winter over large, 



peculiar, grayish-brown cocoons (Fig. 63) that occur 



not infrequently on the limbs of maple, apple, pear, 



cherry, and a great variety of fruit and shade trees. 



. Fig. 62. Cecropia Caterpillar. 



These are the cocoons of one of the largest and hand- 

 somest American insects — the Cecropia Emperor- 

 moth, illustrated, natural size, at Plate IV. This 

 moth often measures six or seven inches across the 

 front wings, the ground color of all the wings being 

 a grizzled, dusky brown, with the hind margins clay 

 colored ; near the middle of each wing there is an 

 opaque, kidney-shaped, dull red spot, having a white 

 center, and a narrow, black edging, and beyond the 

 spot there is a wavy, reddish band bordered internally 

 with white. The fore-wings, next to the shoulders, 

 .are dull red with a curved, white band, and near 



