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numerous black plliferous tubercles. The base of the true 

 legs behind and the prolegs in front bear each a greenish black 

 spot, whence the common name. The moth has an expanse 

 of about li inches and is easily distinguished from the other 

 species here treated. The front wings are pale powdery ash- 

 gray, sometimes tinged with pinkish. There is a small dark 

 median spot and inside the submarginal line is a row of small 

 triangular black spots. The hind wings are white (Fig. 171). 

 The egg has not been described. The pupa is about f inch 

 in length and pale brown in color. 



References 



Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 104, pp. 570-571. 1895. 

 U. S. Bur. Ent. Bull. 109, pp. 47-51. 1912. 



The Speckled Cutworm 



Mamestra subjiincta Grote and Robinson 



The speckled cutworm ranges throughout Canada and the 

 northern United States southward to Colorado and New 

 Mexico. So far it has been recorded as feeding only on cab- 

 bage and climbing fruit- 

 trees to devour the buds 

 and foliage. 



It is not known in what 

 stage hibernation takes 

 place, though it is probably 

 as partly grown caterpillars. 

 The mature caterpillar is 



slightly over 1^ inches in Fig. 172. — The speckled cutworm moth 



length, reddish gray, mi- (x U)- 



nutely speckled with black and white, hence the common name. 

 When they have completed their growth, the larva? burrow 

 into the ground and transform to dark brown pupae from which 

 the moths emerge from late June to September. The moth 



