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eaten into, but when the buds are not plentiful the whole is eaten, and some- 

 times the tip of the twig or the barli. When checlied on the trunk by a band, the 

 caterpillars often become so hungry that they will girdle a tree beneath the band 

 by gnawing off a part or all of the barli. If one listens under a tree at night, he 

 can plainly hear the rasping of their jaws as they are at worli on the buds. 





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Fig. 5.— The dingy cutworm, Feltia subgothica : m and/, male and female moths, natural size; mm and 

 ff, male and female moths twice natural siz9 (after Slingerland) . Beneath is side and back view of the 

 cutworm, twice natural size (after Forbes). 



