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 . Golden-rod in autumn is t\\Q Agro-tis subgothica (Fig. 238). states that this moth is theparent of a cut-worm which veryclosely resembles that of A. Coch-rani, but which has the dark sidedivided into two stripes. The, Fig. 239. cnrysalis remains somewhat longer in the ground, and the moth makes its appearance from fourto six weeks later than A. Cochrani. A. suffusa Den. and Schief. (A. telifera of Harris, fig. 239)is so named from the lan
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 . Golden-rod in autumn is t\\Q Agro-tis subgothica (Fig. 238). states that this moth is theparent of a cut-worm which veryclosely resembles that of A. Coch-rani, but which has the dark sidedivided into two stripes. The, Fig. 239. cnrysalis remains somewhat longer in the ground, and the moth makes its appearance from fourto six weeks later than A. Cochrani. A. suffusa Den. and Schief. (A. telifera of Harris, fig. 239)is so named from the lance-like streaks on the fore wings. Itappears late in July, and probably attacks corn, as Mr. Uhlerhas found the chrysalids at the roots of corn in describes the larva under the name of the Large BlackCut-worm. It is an inch and a half in length when NOCTUiELIT^. 307 *Its general color above is dull, dark, leaden brown, with afaint trace of a dirt}^ jellow white line along the back. Thesubdorsal line is more distinct, and between it and the stigmataare two other indistinct pale lines. There are eight black,shiny, piliferous spots on each segment; two near the subdorsalline, the smaller a little above anteriorly; the larger just belowit, and a little back of the middle of the segment, with the lineappearing especially light above it. The other two are placedeach side of the stigmata, the one anterior 1}^ a little above,the other just behind, in the same line with them, and having awhite shade above it. While cut-worms have usuallj^ been supposed to feed uponthe roots of grasses and to cut off the leaves of succulentvegetables, Mr, Cochran, of Calumet, 111., has discovered thatone species ascends the apple, pear and grape, eating off thefruit buds, thus doing immense damage to the orchard. Mr,Cochran, in a letter published in the Pr
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