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spot is distinct and reddish brown ; the round spot is open in 

 front and confluent with a broad marginal gray band. The 

 hind wings are whitish, darker toward the margin or in some 

 forms entirely brownish (Fig. IGl). The eggs are laid in 

 x\ugust and September. The egg is about 5V inch in diameter, 

 dirty white with brown mottlings, dome-shaped and marked 

 with numerous ridges radiating from the apex. There is but 

 one generation annually. 



References 



Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 104, pp. 574-579. 1895. 

 Dept. Agr. Canada Ent. Bull. 10, pp. 2G-27. 1915. 



The Shagreened Cutworm 



Feltia malefida Guenee 



In the southern states cabbage, potato, cotton and clover 

 are sometimes attacked by a caterpillar which, from its 

 roughened skin, has received the name of shagreened cut- 

 worm. This cutworm does most of its work 

 underground, living in a burrow into which 

 it drags leaves and stems which it cuts oft' 

 at night. The insect ranges from New 

 York to New Mexico and California and 

 southward to Argentina. The full-grown 

 larva is nearly li inches in length, grayish 

 brown in color with a yevy wide buff gray 

 dorsal stripe. The head is pale brown with 

 a curved, dark brown stripe on each side of 

 the face. When mature, the caterpillar 

 transforms within its burrow into a yellowish 

 brown pupa about f inch in length. The 

 pupal ])eriod in Texas varies from fifteen to twenty-seven 

 days. The moth has an expanse of nearly 1| inches. The 

 front wings are powdery pale gray with the front margin dark 



Fig. 162. — The 

 shagreened cut- 

 v/orm moth 



(X U). 



