HALESIDOTA CARY^ 



GENUS, HALESiDO'TA (" chain-like ": perhaps refers to the bands). 

 SPECIES, ca'ry^ (" of hickory '■). 



CarycB is not a woolly bear, but is quite as densely cov- 

 ered with hairs and crawls quite as fast as any woolly 

 bear. It is " the white caterpillar with a row of black 

 buttons down its back," so often seen on elm, hickory, 

 raspberry, willow, apple, and other trees and shrubs, 

 on the piazza, the screen-door, the awning, and the 

 sidewalk. It drops on one's clothes and promptly 

 makes for one's collar and neck, traveling at racing 

 speed, and clinging tenaciously when captured and 

 about to be removed. It is very pretty, and very com- 

 mon " from Maine to the Southern States," Dr. Pack- 

 ard says, and really feeds on " almost everything." 



We found a mat of hemisptierical white eggs on the 

 under side of a thorn-leaf, a hundred eggs set close 

 together. They must have been laid for some time, 

 for the next day they grew lead-colored, with red 

 streaks, and showed the heads of the larva? as black 

 dots. 



The next day they hatched, and the crawlers were 

 not much like the full-grown carycB caterpillars. The 

 body was dull white, with a black patch on the dorsum 

 of the first segment, and a black dot on each side below 



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