108 TRUCK-FARMING AT THE SOUTH. 



widely distributed, it being found in nearly all parts of 

 the United Spates, and attacks many very different 

 plants, sometimes destroying whole fields of corn and of 

 tobacco. The parent moth (fig. 8), is known as the 

 Lance Rustic (Agrotis telifera, Harr. ), which often enters 



Fig. 10. MOTH OF WESTEBN STRIPED CUT-WORM (Agrotis subgothica). 



the house at night. The general color of the fore-wings 

 is dark-brown, and the hind-wings are pearly- white. 



The most common species in Georgia is called the 

 Western Striped cut- worm in the books, though it is 

 quite as common at the East and South as elsewhere. It 

 is dirty-white or ash-gray in color, sometimes yellowish, 

 and has dark stripes on the sides. The moth, known as 

 the Gothic Dart (Agrotis subgothica, Harr.), is given in 

 fig. 10, with the wings both open and closed. The darker 



Fig. 11. DARK-SIDED CUT-WORM (Agrotis Cochranii). 



parts of the wings are deep-brown, and the lighter por- 

 tions are of grayish flesh-color. 



The Dark-sided cut-worm, of which larva and moth 

 are given in fig. 11, is Agrotis Cochranii, Riley. It is 



