. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE GIPSY-MOTH. 423 was not acquainted with it. The apparently forced and strange attitude in which this cater- pillar is represented is that which it assumes when at rest. The second and third pair of legs are much elongated. The moth itself displays no very notable points of structure except the raised tufts on the disc of the fore wings. The weIl-knov\Ti Tiger-moth {Arctia cnja), with its red and brown coloring, is a well- known example of this family, and its caterpillar is no less f
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE GIPSY-MOTH. 423 was not acquainted with it. The apparently forced and strange attitude in which this cater- pillar is represented is that which it assumes when at rest. The second and third pair of legs are much elongated. The moth itself displays no very notable points of structure except the raised tufts on the disc of the fore wings. The weIl-knov\Ti Tiger-moth {Arctia cnja), with its red and brown coloring, is a well- known example of this family, and its caterpillar is no less familiar under the name of Woolly Bear. This is a very harmless creature, feeding almost wholly on the dead nettle, but some of its allies are terrible plagues to the agriculturist, or even to the country at large, having been known to inflict serious damage to crops, and in some parts of Germany even to strip whole forests of their foliage. One of these insects, called the Vaporer-motii {Orgyia antIqfia), is especially remarkable for the strange contrast between the sexes, the male being a wide-winged moth of the ordinary kind, and the female a fat grub-like creature with hardly a vestige of wing, and scarcely. GIPSY-MOTH.—i/j/;j09j(mna dispar. stirring from the spot on which it is placed. The well-known Puss-moth {Gerura vinula), so called because its markings bear some resemblance to those of a tabby cat, belongs to this family. The caterpillar of this moth is a handsomely colored creature, remarkable for the odd, sphinx-like attitude which it assumes when at rest, the pink St. Andrew's cross which is drawn over the back, and the forked appendage at the extremity of the body, from which a pair of long and delicate filaments can be thrust or withdrawn at pleasure. This caterpillar constructs a cocoon of wonderful strength, composed of bits of wood cemented together, and of such hardness that a penknife cannot penetmte it without risk of being snapped in the attempt. As may b
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