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black and white along the back. This may be the larva of F&. 
annexa, which is thus striped, but perhaps A. ypsilon is more abun- 
dant in some localities; they all have similar habits. 
The larva of A. ypsilon, sometimes called the “ Greasy Cut-worm ” 
in the United States, is dark, dull, leaden brown, or blackish, with a 
faint, pale yellowish, broken line along the back, and a somewhat 
more distinct subdorsal line, below which, on each side, there are 
two other indistinct pale lines; about eight small glossy spots on 
each segment; length, 1.5 inches. Fig. 131, 0. 
The moth has the fore wings rather long and narrow; ground- 
color dark purplish brown with more or less of paler or luteous, 
especially on the distal fourth and on the cross-bands; reniform spot 
with a black sagittate dash from middle of outer edge ; hind wings 
whitish or yellowish drab, with yellowish brown veins and marginal 
line; fringe white and with a pearly luster; antennze of male 
strongly pectinate. Expanse, 1.5 to 2 inches, or 36-52™™, Fig. 131 
and plate xeviil, figure 3. 
Peridroma incivis has the ground-color of the thorax and fore 
wings dark or light ash, varying to reddish gray; the wings with 
narrow wavy cross lines and scattered specks of blackish ; orbicular 
spot often lacking, when present edged with brown and white, 
center brownish; Yreniform spot large, distinct, lunate, margined 
with’ white and yellowish, centered with brown; under wings 
purplish white or pearly iridescent white, translucent, with anterior 
and distal margins and veins often dusky. Males are darker than 
females. Expanse, 32-38". Plate xcviii, figure 4. 
The mature larva* may have the ground-color either green or 
brown ; in the latter form the body is of a brown color like dead 
grass, with a broad white band, mixed with red, below the stigmata; 
an obscure double lateral band of brown ; three obscure dorsal and 
subdorsal rows of black specks ; cervical shield with three whitish , 
lines ; head luteous with blackish lines. The green form has the 
head green, with black lines; body green mottled with small brown 
and whitish specks; a double dorsal and four lateral lines of green- 
ish black ; substigmal line broad, red, upper edge brown. Eggs 
ribbed, laid in large clusters on leaves. Larva feeds on grass. 
Feltia annexa, fig. 132, has the ground-color of fore wings clay- 
yellow, with a darker costal patch distally and a basal dark patch; 
veins blackish; orbicular and reniform spots small, connected by a 
* Detailed descriptions of eggs and larve in all stages are given by Mr. H. G. 
Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiii, p. 278, 1900. 
