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their singed wings and suggest one of our most time- 

 honored metaphors of the candle and the moth, are Noctuids. 



On a window in a dark night 



^^ their eyes appear luminous 



^^^j^^^J from the lighted room. This 



gives rise to a name frequently 

 used, " Fiery-eyes." Others 

 call them " Owlet-moths," but 

 it is simpler to speak of them 

 as Noctuids and thus to elim- 

 inate an unnecessary name 

 which adds little to the de- 

 scription. If the adults in 

 this family are familiar objects, 

 the Iarva3 are no less so. 

 Among the common ones may 

 be listed the various species of 

 cutworms. (See page 286, Part 

 II.) The Army-worms so 

 called because of their habit 

 of traveling, when numer- 

 ous, from field to field in 

 large bodies, like armies; the 

 Corn Earworm (see page 253, 

 Part II), known to every cook 

 that ever prepared "roasting 



Jfrte^ JA , r .-jflfffr ears," except in the far north, 



and known on other plants 

 under different names such 



>%- 



as the "cotton boll-worm," 

 the " tomato fruit-worm," 

 "tobacco bud-worm," etc.; 



FIG. 52. Types of Lepidoptera 

 Moths. Reduced one-third. 



Third figure, Notodontidce; others, 

 Noctuidoe. 



the Cotton-worm (see page 257, 



