Insects injurious to fruits . the wings are spread, theymeasure about an inch and three-quarters across. This is one of the most abun-dant of cut-worms, being foundfrom Georgia and Texas to NovaScotia and Manitoba, also in Eu-rope, Asia, Africa, and caterpillar attacks all sorts of garden products, and is oneof the cotton cut-worms of the South. The Striped Cut-worm, Agrotistricosa Lintner. This caterpil-lar is of an ash-gray color, withbroad, dark longitudinal lines, andseveral narrow lighter ones, andwhen full grown is nearly aninch and a half long. The mothis s
Insects injurious to fruits . the wings are spread, theymeasure about an inch and three-quarters across. This is one of the most abun-dant of cut-worms, being foundfrom Georgia and Texas to NovaScotia and Manitoba, also in Eu-rope, Asia, Africa, and caterpillar attacks all sorts of garden products, and is oneof the cotton cut-worms of the South. The Striped Cut-worm, Agrotistricosa Lintner. This caterpil-lar is of an ash-gray color, withbroad, dark longitudinal lines, andseveral narrow lighter ones, andwhen full grown is nearly aninch and a half long. The mothis shown in Fig. 339 with itswings expanded. The fore wingsare of a dark-brown color, paler towards the front edge, withpale-gray markings along the hind wings are of a dark smokybrown, becoming gradually paler to-wards the body. The Checkered Rustic, Agix)tis tes-sellata Harris (Fig. 340), is of adark-ash color, with two pale spotson the front wings alternating with a triangular and a nearlysquare black spot. Fig. Fig. 340.
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