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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
Parasa fraterna is a rare and beautiful little moth, and is closely 
related to Limacodes. The upper wings have a wide, bright-green 
band crossing them, with a brown margin and a brown patch next 
the body. The abdomen and lower wings are light yellowish-brown, 
and the thorax is green. I have taken this insect on but two or 
three occasions with a lighted lamp in Massachusetts, and know 
nothing of its life history. 
Lagoa crispata. 
To the genus Lagoa belong some very woolly moths which go by 
the appropriate name of flannel moths. Our common species, Lagoa 
crispata , is of a light yellow or light buff with crinkled black and 
Case of tlie Evergreen Bag Worm. 
light brown hairs on the fore wings. The body is very downy, and 
when at rest with the wings folded the creature looks like a bit of 
wool. The larva, which is also very woolly, feeds on the blackberry, 
oak and apple. The head is hidden beneath the forward segments of 
