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or less distinct, wavy bands, each formed of two blackish lines ; 

 the kidney-spot is dusky ; and there are several blackish spots on 

 the outer thick edge of the wing. The hind-wings are pearly 

 white in the middle, shaded behind and veined with dusky 

 brown. The thorax is reddish brown, with the collar and 

 shoulder covers doubly edged with black. The abdomen is gray. 

 It expands two inches. 



The reaping rustic (Jlgrotis messoria), as it may be called, is 

 the representative of the corn-rustic (Jlgrotis stgctum) of Europe. 

 The fore-wings are reddish gray, crossed by five wavy blackish 

 bands, the first two of which, and generally the fourth also, are 

 double ; the two ordinary spots, and a third oval spot near the 

 middle of the wing, are bordered with black. The hind-wings 

 are whitish, becoming dusky brown behind, and have a small cen- 

 tral crescent and the veins dusky. The head and thorax are 

 chinchilla-gray ; the collar is edged with black ; and the abdomen 

 is light brownish gray. It expands one inch and four tenths. 



The smallest of these rustic moths may be called Jlgrotis tesscl- 

 lata, the checkered rustic. It probably comes near to the occl- 

 lina and aquilina of Europe, which, however, I have not seen. 

 The fore-wings are dark ash-colored, and exhibit only a faint 

 trace of the transverse double wavy bands ; the two ordinary 

 spots are large and pale, and alternate with a triangular and a 

 square deep black spot ; there is a smaller black spot near the 

 base of the wing. The hind-wings are brownish gray in the mid- 

 dle, and blackish behind. It expands one inch and one quarter. 



The fifth species I am assured by one of my friends is the moth 

 of the cabbage cut-worm. It agrees, in the main, with the de- 

 scription given of the Pkalcciia Noctua devastator, by Mr. John 

 P. Brace, in the first volume of Professor Silliman's " American 

 Journal of Science ;" and may therefore be called Jlgrotis devasta- 

 tor. It somewhat resembles Dr. Boisduval's figures of the Jlgro- 

 tis lalens of Europe. The fore-wings are of a dark ashen gray 

 color, with a lustre like satin ; they are crossed by four narrow 

 wavy whitish bands, which are edged on each side with black ; 

 there is a transverse row of white dots followed by a row of black, 

 arrow-shaped spots, between the third and fourth bands, and three 

 white dots on the outer edge near the tip ; the ordinary spots are 



