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antennae are not shaped like clubs, but are feathered. The 

 mouth-parts are so small that nothing but thick cushions 

 of soft hairs can be seen on the under side of the head. 



This moth probably Uvea bat a short time and eats little, since it 

 oan only lap np its food. 



Fig. 3 t 



Most moths fly at twilight or in the night, while butler- 

 flies fly by day. When moths are at rest, their wings 

 form a sloping roof over the body. 



The Polyphemus moth generally lays its eggs on oak 

 leaves. The huge caterpillar (Fjg. 3) is bright green 

 without yellow stripes or bands, but with rows of hairy 

 warts, and an oblique white line on the side of each ring. 

 Its head and feet are brown, and the tail is bordered by 

 a brown V-shaped line. It makes a beautiful cocoon of 

 glossy silken threads covered on the outside with leaves 

 (Fig. 4), in which it safely passes the winter. Wben the 

 leaves fall in the autumn, the tough oval cocoon enclosed 

 in them is borne to the ground. If one of these cocoons 

 is opened, the pupa looks as in Fig. 5. Its body is much 

 shorter than that of the caterpillar and covered with a 



t From Hyatt's Insecta; D. C. Heath & Co., publishers, Boston. 



