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depredator upon this plant. Dr. Fitch also describes the " Black- 

 headed Cut- worm " as very destructive to beans, cutting them off 

 slightly below the surface, and dragging the severed stem into the 

 ground, where it buries itself, and there feeding upon it during the 

 day, till the whole is devoured, or only pieces of the wilted leaves 

 remain, plugging up the entrance to the hole (First and Second 

 Reports Ins. N. Y., p. 313). 



Strawberries. — Mr. Wm. Saunders reports a severe attack of a 

 species of Agrotis — the particular species 

 is not named, although a full description 

 of the larva and a brief one of the moth 

 are given — upon plantations on the bor- 

 ders of Lake Huron, near Sarnia. The 

 caterpillars manifested an especial fond- 

 ness for the foliage of the strawberry, and 

 notwithstanding the most vigilant search 

 for them night after night, after they had 

 been discovered as the depredators, and 

 j^ui a III the collection and destruction of large 



Fig. is.— The Army Cut-worm, numbers oj: them, they defoliated large 

 Laphygma feugipeeda, with patclies f the vines to such an extent 



enlargements of head and a i 



segment. that they were utterly ruined. Nearly all 



through the month of June they literally swarmed, and scarcely a 

 night passed without material damage from them. In one night, 

 1,800 of the caterpillars were killed by Mr. Mounjoy upon his beds 

 (Second Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, for 

 1872, pp. 21, 22). 



Agrotis fennica, at an early stage in its phenomenal appearance 

 in the spring of 1884, while but one -half inch in length, was found 



in Canada, by Mr. James Fletcher in 

 large numbers, beneath strawberry 

 plants, upon which they were feeding. 

 In the Southern States, Laphygma 

 frugiperda (Sm.-Abb.), known there 

 as the "Grass worm," has been inju- 

 rious to strawberries (Rept. Comm. 

 Agricul. for 1882, p. 138). It is shown 





' . in Figure 18. 



Fig. 19.— Ageotis malefida: a, larva; 

 b, its head enlarged; c, d, dorsal and Hop 8. — The operations OI dlffer- 



laterai views of a middle joint; e, t cu t_ wor ms have frequently been 



highly enlarged surface of skm ; /, tne 

 moth. 



observed on hop-vines, and they have 



