TELEA POLYPHEMUS 



GENUS, te'lea ("the end": no appropriate meaning). 



SPECIES, polyphe'mus (a giant). 



The caterpillar is found most often, next perhaps the 

 moths, though if one haunts electric lights the moths 

 would probably be found most often. The cocoon is 

 found, but not as often as that of cecro^yia or pronietJiea, 

 and we have found more eggs than cocoons. 



The eggs are larger than those of cecrojna, circular, 

 white, with the edge brown, like two white disks 

 bound together with a brown band. They are laid in 

 a short row, two or three togetlier, or singly, on the 

 under side of a leaf or the upper side of a twig, though 

 we have found some on the upper side of white birch 

 leaves as well as on the under side. The brown band 

 had a white dash across it in one place, and opposite 

 this a white dot. The eggs grew brown before hatch- 

 ing, and the caterpillars ate their way out at the white 

 dash. 



Sometimes the shell did not come off the anal end, 

 or rather the little caterpillar could not get free from 

 the shell, and in this case the crawler seized the shell 

 in its mouth, grasping it with its feet, and pulled and 

 tugged until the anal props were pulled free, when the 



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