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black and white along the back. This may be the larva of F. 

 annexa, which is thus striped, but perhaps A. ypsilon is more abun- 

 dant in some localities; they all have similar habits. 



The larva of A. y2)silon, sometimes called the " Greasy Cut-worm " 

 in the United States, is dark, dull, leaden brown, or blackish, with a 

 faint, pale yellowish, broken line along the back, and a somewhat 

 more distinct subdorsal line, below which, on each side, there are 

 two other indistinct pale lines ; about eight small glossy spots on 

 each segment; length, 1.5 inches. Fig. 131, b. 



The moth has the fore wings rather long and narrow ; ground- 

 color dark purplish brown with more or less of paler or luteous, 

 especially on the distal fourth and on the cross-bands; reniform spot 

 with a black sagittate dash from middle of outer edge ; hind wings 

 whitish or yellowish drab, with yellowish brown veins and marginal 

 line ; fringe white and with a pearly luster ; antennas of male 

 strongly pectinate. Expanse, 1.5 to 2 inches, or 36-52 mm . Fig. 131 

 and plate xcviii, figure 3. 



Peridrotua incivis has the ground-color of the thorax and fore 

 wings dark or light ash, vaiying to reddish gray; the wings with 

 narrow wavy cross lines and scattered specks of blackish ; orbicular 

 spot often lacking, when present edged with brown and white, 

 center brownish ; reniform spot large, distinct, lunate, margined 

 with white and yellowish, centered with brown ; under wings 

 purplish white or peai'ly iridescent white, translucent, with anterior 

 and distal margins and veins often dusky. Males are darker than 

 females. Expanse, 32-38 mra . Plate xcviii, figure 4. 



The mature larva* may have the ground-color either green or 

 brown ; in the latter form the body is of a brown color like dead 

 grass, with a broad w T hite band, mixed with red, below the stigmata; 

 an obscure double lateral band of brown ; three obscure dorsal and 

 subdorsal rows of black specks ; cervical shield with three whitish 

 lines ; head luteous with blackish lines. The green form has the 

 head green, with black lines; body green mottled with small brown 

 and whitish specks; a double dorsal and four lateral lines of green- 

 ish black ; substigmal line broad, red, upper edge brown. Eggs 

 ribbed, laid in large clusters on leaves. Larva feeds on grass. 



Feltia annexa, fig. 132, has the ground-color of fore wings clay- 

 yellow, with a darker costal patch distally and a basal dark patch; 

 veins blackish; orbicular and reniform spots small, connected by a 



* Detailed descriptions of eggs and larvae in all stages are given by Mr. H. G . 

 Dyar, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiii, p. 273, 1900. 



