FAMILY LIPARID^ 



FAMILY, LiPAR'iD^ (" thick-bodied "). 



LAGOA CRISPATA 



GENUS, lago'a ("a hare": probably refers to the furry larvffi). 

 SPECIES, CEISPA'TA (" Crinkled," " wavy "). 



In August and September the bayberry and beach- 

 plum bushes are alive with white or tawny caterpillars 

 shaped like half a hen's egg, cut lengthwise, and laid 

 flat side down, with a ridge or crest running length- 

 wise of the back. They are not pleasant to touch, for 

 the hairs sting like nettles, though the effect does not 

 last long. They look like small downy feathers resting 

 on the leaves. These caterpillars are not confined to 

 bayberry and beach-plum, but eat also blackberry, 

 oak, apple, pear, plum, cherry, birch, sycamore, lin- 

 den, sassafras, alder, willow, and hazel, and we have 

 found them on Andromeda Ugustrina and blueberry 

 We reared them on beach-plum and bayberry, how 

 ever. 



The eggs we found on the first day of August, bright 

 yellow eggs, standing on one end in close rows, and so 

 covered with scales from the moth that they looked 

 like cream-colored corduroy. We have found them 



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