10 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 



THE SIIA(aiEENKI) CUTWORM. 



{Fi'ltid )in(l('tiilii (iiien. Fig. 2.) 



The summary of our observations on the life history of this species 

 is as follows: 



Table II. — Tran!< formation records of the shagreened cutworm, 1904- 



Place. 



Larva taken. | Pupated. 



Terrell, Tex. 



College Station, Tex , 



iMareh 29 May 6... 



•^ April 23 May 4. . . 



(June 14 j June 18 . 



IMareh 30 ' 

 ....do I April 29. 

 ....do 1 April 10. 

 April 4 i April 30. 



Days 

 pupa. 



Moth 

 emerged. 



Mav 31 



July 3 



May 19 



Mav 22 



Mav 20 



Larvpe were taken feedino- on potato, cotton, and cabbage. Moths 

 were captured at College Station September 15, 1902, and August 

 23, 1903. 



Previous records. — The larva was first described by Rile}'," who 

 states that it ''appears to })e conhned to the South Atlantic States, 



from the District of Columl)ia to 

 Alabama." Since then the only pub- 

 lished record occurs in Insect Life,* 

 where the larva is reported as feed- 

 ing on young cotton plants in Mis- 

 sissippi in 1889. The records of the 

 Bureau of Entomology show that 

 larvte were received from ^^'arren- 

 town. (ia., where they had damaged 

 cal)bage, on May 3, 1879, and from 

 Alabama, where they were injuring 

 cotton, on June 23 of the .same 

 year. No other records of the specii s have been found. It is very 

 common in Te.xas and evidently is a .southern species. 



The caterpillars of this species are parasitized by (riyjttapanteles 

 milHarh Walsh and Mrtconix rithjaris CJress. 



THE VAi;iE(iATEl) CUTWORM. 



{PeridrntiKt saiicia H))ii. Fig. o.) 



This species prefers garden vegetal)les for food, but it hasl^een taken 

 upon corn and doubtless occasionally attacks cotton. It has been 

 fully discussed by Doctor Chittenden,'' and the following brief sum- 



-Fdliu iimlifida: a, larva; /, moth — 

 natural size (after Riley). 



a 1884: Rept. Comm. of Agric. f. 1884, pp. 292-293. 



''1890: Insect Life, Vol. II, p. 283. 



'1901: Bui. 29, n. s., Diy. Ent., V. S. Dei)t. Agric, pp. 46-64, fig.s. 9-11. 



