Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ft I \ I duu atcd. The dot mid renitbrni spot are very distinct, beiug sit-uated on a black ground, and there is a basal, median, blackstreak on the lore wing. The apex of the hind wings is much produced. The larvjne,called cutworms, arethick, with a distinct,horny, prothoracicplate, like that in theTortrices, or leaf-rol-lers : they are markedwith shining and warty,or smooth and concolor-ous spots, and often lon-gitudinal dark line
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ft I \ I duu atcd. The dot mid renitbrni spot are very distinct, beiug sit-uated on a black ground, and there is a basal, median, blackstreak on the lore wing. The apex of the hind wings is much produced. The larvjne,called cutworms, arethick, with a distinct,horny, prothoracicplate, like that in theTortrices, or leaf-rol-lers : they are markedwith shining and warty,or smooth and concolor-ous spots, and often lon-gitudinal dark lines, and live by day hidden under sticks andthe roots of low plants; feeding by night. The pupa is foundliving under ground. Ay rot is tessellata of Harris (Fig. 237)is dark ash colored ; the two ordinary spots on the fore wingsare large and pale, and alternate with a triangular and a square,deep, black spot. It expands an inch and a quarter. Ayrbtis devastator Harris is the moth ofthe cabbage cut-worm. Anothervery abundant species, often seenflying over the blossoms of thel Golden-rod in autumn is the Aym-tis subgothica (Fig. 238). states that this moth is thepa
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