CERATOCAMPIDiE 



FAMILY, CERATOCAM'PID^. 



ANISOTA SENATORIA 



GENUS, ANISO'TA. 

 SPECIES, SENATO'BIA. 



These caterpillars are often found in colonies on oaks, 

 and sometimes in numbers enough to defoliate the 

 trees. In some places they are very destructive. 



They are black and yellow or orange in longitudinal 

 stripes, and have spines and " horns " like those of A. 

 stigma. Their spines are said to sting like nettles if 

 they pierce the skin, but we have never had any 

 trouble of the kind in handling them. They pupate 

 in the ground. 



In the South they are double-brooded. The moths 

 are ocher-brown, speckled with black, and having a 

 white discal dot on each fore wing. 



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