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  Adenostemma 
  viscosum, 
  Ageratum 
  conyzoides, 
  bean, 
  beet, 
  cab- 
  

   bage, 
  Canna, 
  cockle 
  burr, 
  Coleus, 
  cotton, 
  Datura, 
  Euxolus, 
  

   Ipomoea, 
  Pelargonium, 
  potato 
  (both 
  Irish 
  and 
  sweet), 
  Setaria 
  

   verticillata, 
  Sonchus, 
  sunflower, 
  tomato, 
  wild 
  yam, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  

   other 
  undetermined 
  wild 
  plants. 
  

  

  (2) 
  Spodoptera 
  exigua 
  (Hiibner). 
  

  

  This 
  moth 
  was 
  first 
  recorded 
  from 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands 
  by 
  

   Butler 
  (1880) 
  who 
  described 
  it 
  as 
  Caradrina 
  venosa. 
  His 
  

   description 
  was 
  from 
  specimens 
  collected 
  near 
  Honolulu, 
  by 
  

   Blackburn, 
  who 
  said 
  it 
  was 
  "rare." 
  " 
  Macrolepidoptera," 
  of 
  

   the 
  Fauna 
  Hawaiiensis, 
  gives 
  Kona, 
  Hawaii, 
  and 
  Lahaina, 
  Maui, 
  

   as 
  places 
  where 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  collected. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  a 
  widely 
  distributed 
  moth, 
  being 
  recorded 
  from 
  Great 
  

   Britain, 
  Southern 
  Europe, 
  Africa, 
  Southern 
  Asia, 
  China, 
  Japan, 
  

   Australia, 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands, 
  and 
  Western 
  United 
  States. 
  In 
  

   the 
  latter 
  country 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  Oregon, 
  California, 
  

   Colorado 
  and 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  Beet 
  Army 
  

   Worm 
  {Caradrina 
  {Laphygma) 
  exigua 
  Hbn.) 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  complete 
  account 
  of 
  its 
  depredations, 
  habits, 
  life 
  

   history, 
  etc., 
  together 
  with 
  figures, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  Bui. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Div. 
  

   Ent. 
  33 
  n. 
  s., 
  pp. 
  37-46, 
  1902. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  not 
  nearly 
  so 
  common 
  on 
  these 
  Islands 
  as 
  Spodoptera 
  

   mauritia. 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  it 
  on 
  only 
  two 
  occasions. 
  The 
  first 
  was 
  

   at 
  Pahala, 
  Hawaii, 
  Dec. 
  5, 
  1905. 
  A 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  larvae 
  of 
  

   all 
  sizes 
  were 
  found 
  feeding 
  on 
  Castor 
  Oil 
  plants 
  {Ricinus 
  com- 
  

   munis), 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  gulch 
  in 
  a 
  sugar 
  cane 
  field 
  of 
  the 
  plantation 
  of 
  

   the 
  Hawaiian 
  Agricultural 
  Co. 
  Several 
  egg 
  clusters 
  were 
  also 
  

   found, 
  which 
  on 
  hatching 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  this 
  same 
  species. 
  

  

  The 
  egg 
  clusters 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  a 
  leaf. 
  In 
  one 
  

   cluster, 
  40 
  eggs 
  were 
  counted. 
  They 
  were 
  spherical, 
  in 
  regular 
  

   rows, 
  one 
  layer 
  deep, 
  and 
  the 
  cluster 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  

   greyish 
  hairs 
  from 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  moth. 
  

  

  One 
  cluster 
  of 
  100 
  was 
  found 
  which 
  had 
  just 
  hatched. 
  The 
  

   larvae 
  were 
  two 
  mm. 
  long, 
  green 
  with 
  black 
  heads, 
  and 
  finely 
  

   pubescent, 
  each 
  hair 
  in 
  a 
  tiny 
  black 
  tubercle. 
  

  

  While 
  young 
  they 
  fed 
  gregariously 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  a 
  

   leaf 
  along 
  a 
  vein 
  where 
  the 
  leaf 
  was 
  somewhat 
  depressed, 
  and 
  

   they 
  ate 
  only 
  the 
  green 
  substance 
  of 
  the 
  leaf, 
  leaving 
  the 
  lower 
  

   epidermis. 
  They 
  were 
  covered 
  by 
  a 
  slight 
  web. 
  As 
  they 
  

   increase 
  in 
  size 
  they 
  become 
  more 
  separated, 
  often 
  feeding 
  

  

  