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tapering s})ines, black at base and pale at tip, a little distance 

 apart at base, slighth- diverging but curved together at their 

 tips. 



The moth (Plate II, fig. 1) emerges from the ])upa iu ten 

 days to three weeks. It is about two inches in expanse of wing. 



THE VARIEGATED CUTWOEM. 



Lycophotia margaritom (Haworth). 

 Plate III, figs. 1-2. 



Agrotis saucia, Mevrick, Fauna Hawaiiensis, I, Pt. Ill, p. 

 143,' 1901. 



Peridroma nuirgaritosa, Dyar, List of North Amercan Lepi- 

 doptera, p. 184, 1902. 



Lycophotia marqaritosa, Hanipson, (^at. Lep. Phal. British 

 Mus., IV, p. 53(1, fig. 92, 1903. 



"Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous; palpi fuscous ex- 

 cept towards extremity; thoracic crest often whitish; abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wing brownish ochreous irrorated with brown; a 

 double waved subbasal line from costa to vein 1; a double waved 

 antemedial line; claviform moderate, with brown outline and line 

 in centre; orbicular and reniform large with brown outlines, the 

 former elliptical, the latter with fuscous in its lower portion; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; the sub- 

 terminal line ochreous, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4 and 3, with fuscous spots on its inner side at costa and on 

 its outer from below apex to middle; a terminal series of small 

 dark lunules. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and mar- 

 ginal areas brown; the underside with discoidal point and the costal 

 area irrorated with brown." [Hampson, Catalogue of the Lepi- 

 doptera, British Museum, IV, p. 536, 1903]. 



This is another cosmopolitan cutworm, being widely distrib- 

 uted over Europe, Asia, North Africa, North and South Amer- 

 ica, from Canada to Argentina. 



It is a general feeder, eating the usual garden and field crops 

 and not particularly grasses. It is also a green-house pest in the 

 States, feeding largely on violets and other ornamental plants. 

 In the Hawaiian Islands, besides feeding on garden crops it 

 also feeds upon sugar cane to some extent, being frequently 



