XIY 

 ARCTIID.E 



FAMILY, AECTI'ID^E 



SUBFAMILY, ARCTIINvE. 



LEUCARCTIA ACR^A 



GENUS, LEUCARC'TIA (" white bear " : the $ moth is white). 



SPECIES, ACR^'A. 



THESE are the fox-colored "woolly bears" whicli 

 ImiTY across the walks and roads in the antiimn ; 

 the "old-fashioned caterpillars" they are called by 

 some of our friends who used to call all smooth cater- 

 pillars "worms." Sometimes they are yellow, instead 

 of fox-colored, or cream-colored, or even really white, 

 but the}' " make the same moth in the end." We tried, 

 one year, rearing all the differently colored ones in 

 boxes, each color in its separate box, then kept the 

 cocoons sei)arate, and in the following spring we had a 

 fine lot of acrcea moths. The male has orange hind 

 wings, and all have orange abdomens with black spots. 

 The black speckles on the wings vary much in 

 number. 



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