16 

 THE LESSER NATIVE CUTWORM. 



FeJtia dislocata (Walker), 



(Plate TI, Figs. 3-6.) 



Agrotis dislocnUi. Mevriek, Fauna Ilawaiiensis, I, Pt. Ill, 

 p. 146, 1901. 



Feltia, clislocafa. ITampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. British ]\rus., 

 IV, p. 351, PI. LXVIII, fig. 12, 1903. 



"Male and female; 34-47 mm. Head and a marginal band along 

 front of thorax light ochreous-brown, rest of thorax whitish-fuscous. 

 Antennae in male bidentate with triangular processes. Forewings 

 light fuscous, more or less irrorated with white, and sometimes 

 darker-sprinkled; veins marked with dark fuscous lines, except 

 lower margin of cell, which is white; interior of cell paler and more 

 ochreous, usually marked with a black dot towards base; orbicular 

 and reniform combined into an elognate posteriorly abruptly dilated 

 mark, fuscous, outlined with black; a darker fuscous black-outlined 

 streak beneath cell from base to middle, somewhat dilated posterior- 

 ly; a pale ochreous longitiulinal suffusion beneath this from base to 

 near tornus; sometimes short undefined blackish dashes or dark- 

 outlined marks between bases of veins 2-6. Hindwings fuscous." 

 [Meyrick, Fauna Hawaiiensis, I, Pt. Ill, p. 146, 1901]. 



This is a native entworni nnrl often hecomes a had pest in 

 sugar cane, as well as in gardens and also on other crops. From 

 my ohservations, it is more injnrions to garden crops than to 

 cane ; hnt thev are often reported numerous locally in cane 

 fields. I have often taken them in cane fields in company with 

 the army worm (Cirphis unijxtnrta). They are slightly lar- 

 ger than the latter, and have more strictly the cutworm hahit 

 of feeding; tliat is, of liiding during the day in the soil or 

 under trash and rnl)hish on the surface of the soil, and feeding 

 at night on the lower leaves of the ]ilant. 



LIFE HISTORY. 



The eggs (Plate II, figs. 5, 6) are laid at the base of plants, 

 or even scattered on the soil, sometimes singly, sometimes two 

 or three adhering together, and sometimes as many as a dozen 

 in a hunch together or even a hundred or more in an irregular 



