Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . Fig. 2. —Feltia malefida: a, larva; /, moth-natural size (after Riley). THE VARIEGATED CUTWORM. (Peridroma savcia Hbn. Fig. 3.) This species prefers garden vegetables for food, but it has been takenupon corn and doubtless occasionally attacks cotton. It has beenfully discussed by Doctor Chittenden/ and the following brief sum- «1884: Kept, Coram, of Agric. f. 1884, pp. 292-293. b 1890: Insect Life, Vol. II, p. 283. a901: Bui. 29, n. s., Div. Exit, U. S. Dept. Agric., pp. 46-64, figs. 9-11. THE GARDEN WEBWORM. 1 I niary of our observations on th
Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . Fig. 2. —Feltia malefida: a, larva; /, moth-natural size (after Riley). THE VARIEGATED CUTWORM. (Peridroma savcia Hbn. Fig. 3.) This species prefers garden vegetables for food, but it has been takenupon corn and doubtless occasionally attacks cotton. It has beenfully discussed by Doctor Chittenden/ and the following brief sum- «1884: Kept, Coram, of Agric. f. 1884, pp. 292-293. b 1890: Insect Life, Vol. II, p. 283. a901: Bui. 29, n. s., Div. Exit, U. S. Dept. Agric., pp. 46-64, figs. 9-11. THE GARDEN WEBWORM. 1 I niary of our observations on the life history in Texas merely supple-ments his account. Table III. Transformation records of the variegated cutworm, 1904- Place. Larva taken. Pupated. pupa. Moth emerged. (March 31 I April lx I March 16 J March 29 oil April 5 April 25 .. March 24 .... IX April 11 | corn. Judging from the above records, the life histories of the three species of cutworms discussed are evidently much the Fiu. 3.— Peridroma saueia: a, moth; l>. normal form of larva, lateral view; c, same in curved position;<l, dark form, dorsal view; e, egg from side:./, egg mass on (after Boward). THE GARDEN WEBWORM.(Loxostege similalis Guen. Fig. 4.) In Texas and the Southwest, the common name which has been giventhis insect seems hardly suitable, for there it is primarily a pest <^\corn and cotton and only incidentally a garden insect. In L903 veryserious and widespread damage in north Texas and Oklahoma, as wellas in other parts of Texas, to young cotton and corn, necessitatedreplanting after the plants were well started. This injury occurredmost generally during the first two weeks of June. In L904 the first moths were taken at trap light at College 10. 21, and 24. At Terrell the first was taken at light on May24, and during the season then1 were more specimens of this moth 12 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. s caught at light than of any other affecting cotton; not a
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