206 Forty-second Report on the State Museum. [64] 



1875, the first brood had entirely disappeared at my commencement 

 on J uly second. The first individual of the second brood was taken 

 on September seventh, and others following on the ninth, eleventh, 

 thirteenth, fifteenth, twentieth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, October second, 

 fourth, tenth, nineteenth, and twenty-second — on each evening except 

 seven, when the collections were made (Entomolog. Contrib., IV, p. 45). 

 The following year, 1876, the first brood was evidently delayed in the 

 time of its appearance, as it was taken only between July eighteenth 

 and August third. No collections at sugar were made during the 

 autumn, and I have, therefore, no record of the appearance of the 

 second brood of that year. 



Its Geographical Distribution. 



It is a species of very broad distribution, being found throughout 

 most of Europe; in Canada and British Columbia; in the United States 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific; in South America, in Colombia, Brazil 

 and Patagonia; and in the Madeira and Teneriffe islands. 



Remedies. 



The remedies for attack of this species of cut-worm, as indicated 

 by what has been above given of its life-history and habits, should 

 be, in general, such as give best promise of killing the larvae when 

 concealed during the day under leaves, or just beneath the surface of 

 the ground when no better shelter is offered. Large numbers may 

 be easily destroyed by poisoning them with prepared baits of their 

 favorite foods when they come abroad to feed at night during the 

 month of May, and crushing the pupse by thorough plowing while 

 buried at a moderate depth in the ground during late May or early 

 June, or, as more practicable, toward the latter part of August. For 

 remarks upon these methods, and for other remedies and preventives 

 available against cut-worms as a class, see Bulletin No. 6 of the N. Y. 

 State Museum of Natural History, on "Cut-worms," lately published; 

 and the same in the Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 

 vol. xxxiv, for the years 1883-1886. 



Mamestra picta Harris. 



The Zebra Cabbage Caterpillar. 



(Ord. Lepidopteea : Fam. Noctuid^;.) 



Harris: Ins. N. Engl., 1852, p. 350-1; Ins. Inj. Veg., 1862, p. 451-2, f. 223 

 (larva), f. 224 (pupa) ; Entomolog. Corr., 1869, p. 317-18 (larval descrip- 

 tion and dates). 



Guenee: Sp. Gen. Lep., v.— Noct. i, 1852, p. 344, pi. 5, f. 8 (as Ceramica 

 exusta— moth described). 



