The Moths and Butterflies 
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It grows to be 2 inches long and spins a peculiar gray cocoon which looks 
very much like a slight swelling of the twig to which it is fastened. The 
pupa hibernates, the moth issuing in June of the next year. 
(Bn 
Fig. 599. 
Fig. 598.—A family of young forest tent-caterpillars, Clisiocampa disstria, resting during 
the day on the bark. (Photograph from life by Slingerland; one-third natural size.) 
Fig. 599.—The forest tent-caterpillar moth, Clisiocampa disstria , in its various stages. 
m, male moth; /, female moth; p, pupa; e, eggs in a ring about twig; g, eggs after 
hatching; c, larva or caterpillar. (After Slingerland; moths and caterpillar-natural 
size, eggs and pupa slightly enlarged.) 
Including the largest, the most beautiful—in popular eyes at least— 
and the favorite moths for rearing in “crawleries,” the superfamily Saturniina 
includes as well one of the only two insects that have been domesticated 
by man and reared for the sake of their useful products. The honey-bee 
and the silkworm moth are fairly to be called domesticated animals. To 
the Saturniina belong the great cecropias, the marvelous lunas, the regal 
and imperial walnut-moths, and the soft-tinted rosy dryocampas. Although 
the whole group, divided commonly into four families, includes but forty- 
two North American species, almost every one of these is more or less 
