Stinging Caterpillar, Lalkara
Notes
Lalkara W (FJG) Lalkarra. Green leaf-eating stinging caterpillar. (Wilkins)
Lalkira — A grub which gives its name to a totemic group. Arunta tribe. (NorTCA, glossary)
"...in the Alcheringa, the lalkira, a grub, changed its skin and so turned into a white cockatoo. What this had to do with the giving of fire we could not understand..." (NorTCA, 214)