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stern. The piano-stools and the stem props are 

 not considered to be real legs, and they disappear 

 when the caterpillar turns into a moth. 



The Cynthia cocoons (Fig. 85) are bound to 

 the twigs by yellowish-white silk ribbons, the twig 

 to which the cocoon is attached being itself first 

 carefully wrapped for many inches with silk, then 

 the leaves and leaf stalk holding the cocoon securely 

 bound to the twig. Great bunches of these cocoons 

 often hang together; sometimes there will be a 

 cluster of as many as twenty cocoons on one small 

 branch. In these swinging sleeping-bags the pupse 

 spend the winter safely protected from the storms 

 of ice, sleet and snow, but not from all foes, be- 

 cause the hairy woodpecker may sometimes be seen 

 hanging on to a twig hammering away on the 

 silken covering of the cocoon. The sharp beak of 

 the woodpecker makes a hole through the cocoon's 

 walls and the skin of the pupa itself, then the bird 

 laps or sucks out all the insides and leaves only 

 the dry shell. 



The Cynthia moth (Fig. 86) could not join 

 the Sons of the Revolution nor the Colonial Dames 

 because he or she does not come of early American 

 stock. The Cynthia originalh' was a Chinaman, 



