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MAINE -TATE COLLEGE. 



The Variegated Cut-worm. 



Agrostis saucia (Hubncr). 

 (Orel. Lepidoptera : Fam. iNoctuidae.) 



DESCRIPTION. 



Eggs — rooncl, flattened, pink, prettily ribbed and ornamented. 

 laid in patches of several hundred on the twigs of the appl,?, 

 cherry and peach. Mr. Monroe's specimens were found on the 

 f\ trunks of phrrn trees. Fig. 1, a, represents an 

 egg enlarged, showing the ribbing and orna- 

 mentation. Fig. 1. I. represents a cluster of 

 the eggs, natural size, attached to a twig. 



LarvcB, when young, dull yellow marked 

 with darker spots. Full grown larva, dull 

 flesh color, mottled with brown and black and 

 elongated velvety black markings on the sides, 

 large, when mature nearly two inches long. 

 Fig. 2 shows the larva at rest and the head 

 magnified to show the markings. The larvae 

 are mature in June, when they enter the 

 ground form an oval cavity within which they 



fig. 2, Fig. 3. 



change to the chrysalis, which is deep mahogany brown, pointed 



at the extremity, as shown in Fig. 3. 



The moth, shown in Fig. 4. 

 expands about one and three- 

 quarters inches and the fore 

 wings are grayish brown marked 

 with brownish black ; the hind 

 wings are white and pearly, 

 shaded toward the margin with 

 pale brown. The moth is on the 



wins in Julv and lavs its eass as shown above. 



