772 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
regular black dash ; under wings nearly pure white. Expanse, 38— 
45™™, 
Feltia malefida also has a pale clay-yellow ground-color, mixed 
with gray and with dark brown costal and terminal patches ; a 
distinct, large, dark, claviform spot; orbicular spot flask-shaped, 
elongated, centered and edged with blackish; reniform broad, edged 
with black and centered with dark brown ; no black dash between 
them ; under wings nearly white, sometimes with buff or dusky veins 
and margins. Expanse, 40-45"™. Plate xeviii, figure 5. 
American Army-worm. (Leucania wunipuncta (Haw.); Flint, in 
Harris, ed. ii, p. 627, figs. 274-6; J. B. Smith, Cont. Monog. 
Noct., Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., xxv, 177, 1902.) 
FIGuRE 133. 
This destructive insect was recorded by Jones as common in 1876, 
but I do not know whether it has ever proved so destructive to 
grass and cereal crops as it often does in the United States. Miss 
Victoria Hayward states that a larva, locally called “ Army-worm,” 
is very injurious to the common potato some seasons, but its iden- 
tity is uncertain. 
The larva of ZL. wnipuncta is dark gray, with three narrow, yel- 
lowish dorsal stripes, and a wider darker yellow one on each side ; 
head brownish yellow, lined with brown, and with a V-shaped black 
mark on the front. Length, about 1.5 inches. 
The moth has the fore wings dull russet-drab or fawn-color, with 
a small, distinct, white spot in the center, and a dusky oblique stripe 
at the tips, the surface sprinkled with black dots, two very small 
pale yellowish dots near the white spot; hind wings smoky brown, 
translucent. Expanse, 1.75 inches. Canada to Colorado ; Florida ; 
Mexico ; and South America. 
Leucania antica Walker was also recorded by Butler, 1884, as the 
commonest moth in the Challenger Expedition collections. It is a 
West American species according to Walker. The larve are per- 
haps among those called “ Army-worms” in Bermuda. We should 
expect that the southern Army-worm of the United States (Laphyg- 
ma frugiperda) would also be found here, but it has not been 
recorded. 
