94. FLANNEL-MOTHS. 
color appearing in the broken dorsal and lateral lines. It is 
furnished with distinct dorsal and lateral tubercles, blue 
anteriorly and crimson behind the fifth segment, from each 
of which arise tufts of long black and yellowish hair. The 
caterpillar changes to a chocolate-brown pupa, covered by 
a few threads, forming the merest apology for a cocoon. 
The male moths are brownish-yellow, the fore-wings are 
smoky, with darker irregular transverse lines; the hind- 
_ wings are paler with a darker outer-margin. The heavier 
and much larger female moths are creamy-white in color, 
with irregular transverse gray or blackish lines. The males 
measure with expanded wings from one and one-half to two 
inches, the females two and one-half inches. The moths ap- 
pear from July to September. The females deposit their 
eggs in masses of from four to five hundred in allconceivable 
localities, and cover them with yellow hair and scales from 
the end of their abdomen. The insects winter as eggs, 
which hatch from April to June. 
FAMILY MEGALOPYGIDZ OR FLANNEL-MOTHS. 
Prof. Comstock has, tor good reasons, separated from 
the Liparidz a number of moths, which he places in a new 
family, the Megalopygide or Flannel-moths. They are 
whitish-moths which have their wings densely clothed with 
long and curly hairs, resembling bits of flannel. Their 
larve are also remarkable for the possession of ten pairs of 
legs, three thoracic and seven abdominal, while all other 
known lepidopterous larve have lost some of their abdom- 
inallegs. The cocoons are furnished with a trap-door. 
THE WAVED LAGOA. 
(Lagoa crispata Packard). 
This peculiar caterpillar is quite uncommon in Minne- 
sota, where it feeds upon a variety of plants, but especially 
upon the blackberry, apple and raspberry. Being quite un- 
common it probably will never be classed among the injur- 
