tiger moth

Entom.: Arctia caja , a large fine moth, the male with pectinated antenne, the fore wings in both sexes brown, with numerous irregularly ramifying whitish streaks and spots, the hinder wings reddish orange with six or seven blue-black spots; expansion of wings, 24 to 24 inches. Larva black, with long white hairs on the back, reddish-brown ones along the sides and on the anterior segments; the chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; tight head and legs black. It feeds on chickweed, dock nettle, and various low plants. The eggs are deposited in July and August; the larva lives through the winter, and when full grown is about two inches long. It spins a loose hairy web in July, and changes to a large dark smooth chrysalis. tiger-shark, 8. Ichthy.: Ste go stoma tigrinum , a shark common in the Indian Ocean. Young specimens are generally met with close to the shore; but the full-grown fish, from ten to fifteen feet long, frequent the open sea. The color is a yellowish-brown, with black or dark brown transverse bands or spots, whence the popu lar name. Called also Zebra-shark.