70 



A. K Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 



Whole United States ; Cuba. 



Feltia annexa (Tr.); Smith, Revis. Noc, op. cit., p. 122; Catal., 

 p. 84 = Agrotis annexa Tr.; Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent., Haust,, ii, p. 

 117, pi. xxii, f. 2; French, Canad. Ent., xiv, p. 207, 1882. (Life-his- 

 tory.) 



United States S. of New England ; Mexico ; South America ; 

 Europe. 



Figures 131, a, b • 132. Plate XCVIII. 



These and other related species are sufficiently troublesome to 

 young garden crops. Some of them may have been indigenous, for 

 Cut-worms were mentioned by Gov. Butler in 1619, as injurious to 

 the crops ; but they are all species easily introduced in the larval 

 state, in the earth attached to the roots of living plants. 



131 



Figure 131. — Cut-worm (A. ypsilon) ; a, imago ; b, larva ; about natural size. 

 Figure 132. — Cut-worm (Feltia annexa); a, larva ; a', its head; b, pupa; 

 e, imago. Figure 133. — Army-worm (Leucania unipuncta) ; a. male 

 imago ; 6, pupa ; c, larva ; both %. Last two are from Webster's Interna- 

 tional Dictionary ; after Eiley. 



The destructive larva called " the ormb " by the farmers in Ber- 

 muda is probably the larva of four or more species of cut-worm 

 moths, and some allied genera. According to the notes of Miss Vic- 

 toria Hayward it is a nocturnal larva that attacks the young plants 

 of potatoes, etc., especially of onions, often doing great damage to 

 the latter. They are most abundant in January and February, but 

 are active from December to June. They often destroy large num- 

 bers of seedling onions in the beds, and are so fond of Birds-eve 

 Peas that these can hardly be planted safely before July. They are 

 often caught in large numbers by hand, in the night, by the use of 

 lanterns. This larva is silvery gray with four alternating stripes of 



