WOODLAND PATHS 



has to do with this. He is our largest 

 moth, and in beauty of coloring is sur- 

 passed, to my mind, only by two others. 



One of these is Telia polyphemus, a 

 wonderful creature, almost as large as 

 the cecropia, all a soft, rosy tan with 

 fleckings of gray and white and bands of 

 soft violet-gray and pink, and great eye- 

 spots of white margined with yellow, 

 browed with peacock blue, and ringed 

 with violet-black. The larva, which is 

 bigger than a big man's thumb, is a beau- 

 tiful shade of transparent green with side 

 slashings of silvery white, and feeds on 

 most of our deciduous forest trees. 



I have had most luck in finding them 

 on chestnuts. Last fall, when beating a 

 chestnut tree for the nuts, I dislodged 

 several, one of which I brought home and 

 put in a cage with some leaves. He re- 

 fused to eat, but in a day or so spun a 



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