90 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



just as well call snakes eels because both have long 

 wiggly bodies or call earth-worms caterpillars. 

 You see most people talk too carelessly to describe 

 a thing accurately. 



The Cynthia lays about three hundred and fifty 

 white eggs early in May and in common with other 

 mother millers she sticks her eggs, like postage 

 stamps, to the leaves or branches, using a brown, 

 gummy glue of her own for the purpose and care- 

 lessly smearing her white eggs with it. In two or 

 three weeks' time the baby CjTithias hatch out and 

 begin to eat and change their clothes and eat more 

 and change their clothes more often as they grow. 



Not only are the Cynthias handsome caterpil- 

 lars, but they are also so economical that they do 

 not like to waste anything, so in spite of the fact 

 that all the leaves of the trees are handy for them 

 to eat, they always eat up their old suit of clothes 

 rather than throw it away. Like Robin Hood, they 

 dress in green and their costume is ornamented 

 with black dots, a white bloom and a row of white 

 tubercles (Fig. 84). 



The CjTithias have six legs up in the bow, so 

 to speak, then a bunch of soft, fat piano-stool sup- 

 ports amidships and a pair of soft props at the 



