Handbook of medical entomology . 31. 6) Adult. Enlarged. Photographs by M. V. S. pletely covered and hidden by long silken hairs of a tawny or browncolor, giving a convex form to the upper side. Interspersed among 46 Poisonous Arthropods. 32 The poisonous saddle back caterpillar, (Sibine) stimulea. Photograph by M. V. S. Empretia these long hairs are numer-ous short spines connectedwith underlying h\Tpoder-mal poison glands. Thesehairs are capable of pro-ducing a marked nettlingeffect when they come incontact with the species is found inour Atlantic and SouthernStates. Satisfactoryst
Handbook of medical entomology . 31. 6) Adult. Enlarged. Photographs by M. V. S. pletely covered and hidden by long silken hairs of a tawny or browncolor, giving a convex form to the upper side. Interspersed among 46 Poisonous Arthropods. 32 The poisonous saddle back caterpillar, (Sibine) stimulea. Photograph by M. V. S. Empretia these long hairs are numer-ous short spines connectedwith underlying h\Tpoder-mal poison glands. Thesehairs are capable of pro-ducing a marked nettlingeffect when they come incontact with the species is found inour Atlantic and SouthernStates. Satisfactorystudies of its poisonoushairs and their glands havenot yet been made. Sibine stimulea {Em-pretia stimulea), or thesaddle-back caterpillar (fig. 32), is another which possesses nettling hairs. This species belongs to the group of Eucleidae, or slug caterpillars. It can be readily recognized by its flattened form, lateral, brist-ling spines and by the large green patch on the back resembling a saddle-cloth, while the saddle is repre-sented by an oval, purplish-brown spot. The small spines are veno-mous and affect some persons very painfully. The larva feeds on the leaves of a large variety of forest trees and also on cherr3% plum, and
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