770 A. E. Verrili— The Bermuda Tslands. 
Whole United States ; Cuba. 
Feltia annexa (Tr.); Smith, Revis. Noc., op. cit., p. 122; Catal., 
p. 84=Agrotis annexa Tr.; Stephens, Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust., ii, p. 
117, pl. xx, f. 2; French, Canad. Ent., xiv, p. 207, 1882. (Life-his- 
tory.) 
United States S. of New England; Mexico; South America ; 
Europe. 
Figures 131, a, b; 1382. Pirate XCVIII. 
These and other related species are sufticiently troublesome to 
young garden crops. Some of them may have been indigenous, for 
Cut-worms were mentioned by Goy. Butler in 1619, as injurious to 
the crops ; but they are all species easily introduced in the larval 
state, in the earth attached to the roots of living plants. 
131 
Figure 131.—Cut-worm (A. ypsilon); a, imago; b, larva; about natural size. 
Figure 132.—Cut-worm (Feltia annexa); a, larva; a’, its head; 6, pupa; 
imago. Figure 133.—Army-worm (Leucania unipuncta); a, male 
2 
imago; b, pupa; ¢, larva; both 2s. Last two are from Webster's Interna- 
se 
Cc, 
tional Dictionary ; after Riley. 
The destructive larva called “the grub” by the farmers in Ber- 
muda is probably the larva of four or more species of cut-worm 
moths, and some allied genera. According to the notes of Miss Vic- 
toria Hayward it is a nocturnal larva that attacks the young plants 
of potatoes, etc., especially of onions, often doing great damage to 
the latter. They are most abundant in January and February, but 
are active from December to June. They often destroy large num- 
bers of seedling onions in the beds, and are so fond of Birds-eye 
Peas that these can hardly be planted safely before July. They are 
often caught in large numbers by hand, in the night, by the use of 
lanterns. This larva is silvery gray with four alternating stripes of 
