. The American entomologist. Entomology. 182 THE AMERICAN The Hedg-e-Hog Caterpillar—^;»-ore Burt, Wll- UamshKrij. Mo.—The large caterpillar, covered with stifl black hairs on each end, aud with reddish hairs in the middle of the liody, is the larva of the Isabella Tiger [Fij. 115,1. Moth (Aretia hahella, Hiibn.) The moth is of a dull orange color, with the front wings variegated with dusky, and spotted with black, and the hind wings somewhat lighter and also with black spots. The cater- pillar is one of those which passes the winter as a eater- pillar, rolling itself up like a hedge-hog, and
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 182 THE AMERICAN The Hedg-e-Hog Caterpillar—^;»-ore Burt, Wll- UamshKrij. Mo.—The large caterpillar, covered with stifl black hairs on each end, aud with reddish hairs in the middle of the liody, is the larva of the Isabella Tiger [Fij. 115,1. Moth (Aretia hahella, Hiibn.) The moth is of a dull orange color, with the front wings variegated with dusky, and spotted with black, and the hind wings somewhat lighter and also with black spots. The cater- pillar is one of those which passes the winter as a eater- pillar, rolling itself up like a hedge-hog, and seeking some sheltered place. In the spring it becomes active and '' feeds up '' on the first green blades of grass which it can obtain, after which it undergoes its transforma- tions in the usual manner. These worms cannot be con- sidered injurious, and the supposition that they cause the lever, whencu- they are called "Fever-worms'" in your locality, is of course unfounded and erroneous. A much larger ami eiiUrely black prickly worm (larva of EcjMnthtria Ka-lhniini. Iliibn.), and closely allied to it, which oi'curs iiuitc abimdantly in the southern swamps, is likewise diiblicd ' • Fi-ver-worm '' by tlie negroes, under siniilur false iuipressions of its injurious powers. As the iniasnia of the swamps induces ague, and as this worm is found abundantly in such situations, the two circumstances have doubtless been associated through ignorance, aud some Ethiopean, right from Dixie, has perhaps pei-i>rtuated the name in your vicinity, by iipplyiiiu' if to our more northern Hedge-hog Cater- pillar. Tlir IsMliella Tiger Moth is illustrated at Figure 112. ,1 giving a liaci; view of the larva, I the cocoon cut olieii so ;is to show (he chrysalis, and c the moth. Thf bectle> which you found under the bark of a fence rail, may bo known Ijy the name of the .Sleek Horinus {fTormuf lirch, Oliv.) They feed on rotting wood. Cbick-wecd Geometer^/. Hmjgins, Woodbimt, Ills
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