CABBAGE MOTH. Ill 



cockchafer or the daddy-long legs, while on tho 

 Continent its approach is looked upon with 

 absolute terror, the caterpillar army advancing 

 across the fields as if under discipline, and, 

 though hidden from view, destroying all the 

 grass by devouring the roots. In some places it 

 nas absolutely destroyed the grass crops, while 

 in none does it appear without doing great 

 damage. 



The caterpillar is rather smooth, and of a dull 

 grey colour, harmonizing almost perfectly with 

 the soil in which it lives, and from which it never 

 emerges until it has passed through the larval 

 and pupal stages of existence. 



Next we come to the genus Mamestra, of 

 which we have ai example in the CABBAGE 



Cabbage Moth. 



MOTH (Mamestra Irassicas), a figure cf which is 

 here given. 



