MARCH WINDS 



color of deep brown less diversified than 

 the coloring of his mate. 



The Samia cecropia is another of our 

 silk-worm moths whose cocoon is not dif- 

 ficult to find. The cecropia, instead of 

 rolling up in a pendant leaf, constructs 

 his cocoon without protection, and glues 

 it right side up beneath a stout twig or 

 even a considerable limb. I have one now 

 that I took from the under side of a big 

 leaning alder bole, skiving it off with the 

 bark, but most of those I have collected 

 have been attached to slender twigs of 

 low shrubs. 



But, though the cecropia does not roll 

 up in a leaf, he is apt to place his winter 

 home where dead leaves will persist about 

 him. I have never found him so plenti- 

 ful as the promethea, though he is com- 

 monly reported as numerous. Perhaps 

 this habit of hiding among the dead leaves 

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