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 . 306 ated. The dot and reniform spot are very distinct, being sit-uated on a black ground, and tliere is a basal, median, blackstreak on the fore wing. The apex of the hind wings is much produced. The larvae,called cutworms, arethick, with a distinct,horny, prothoracicplate, like that in theTortrices, or leaf-rol-lers ; they are markedI with shining and warty,or smooth and concolor-^^- 2^^* ous spots, and often lon- gitudinal dark lin
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 . 306 ated. The dot and reniform spot are very distinct, being sit-uated on a black ground, and tliere is a basal, median, blackstreak on the fore wing. The apex of the hind wings is much produced. The larvae,called cutworms, arethick, with a distinct,horny, prothoracicplate, like that in theTortrices, or leaf-rol-lers ; they are markedI with shining and warty,or smooth and concolor-^^- 2^^* 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. Agrotis 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. Agrotis devastator Harris is the moth ofthe cabbage cut-worm. Anothervery abundant species, often seenfl3ing over the blossoms of the} Golden-rod in autumn is t\\Q Agro-tis subgothica (Fig. 238). states that this mo
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