10 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 
THE SHAGKEENED CUTWORM. 
(Feltia malefida Guen. Fig. 2.) 
The summar} 1 ^ of our observations on the life history of this species 
is as follows: 
Table II. — Tram for motion records of the shagreened cutworm, 1904- 
Place. 
Larva taken. 
Pupated. 
Days 
pupa. 
Moth 
emerged. 
1 March 29 .... 
{ April 23 
Uunel4 
March 30 
May 6 
27 
15 
Mav 31 
June 18 
July 3 
Mav 19 
j....do 
i....do 
(April 4 
April 29 
April 10 
23 
May 22 
j April 30 
20 
May 20 
Larva? were taken feeding" on potato, cotton, and cabbage. Moths 
were captured at College Station September 15, 1902, and August 
23, 1903. 
Previous records. — The larva was first described by Rile} r , a who 
states that it "appears to be confined to the South Atlantic States, 
from the District of Columbia to 
Alabama." Since then the only pub- 
lished record occurs in Insect Life, 6 
where the larva is reported as feed- 
ing on young cotton plants in Mis- 
sissippi in 1889. The records of the 
Bureau of Entomology show that 
larvae were received from Warren- 
town. Ga., where they had damaged 
cabbage, on May 3, 1879, and from 
Alabama, where they were injuring 
cotton, on June 23 of the same 
year. No other records of the sped: s have been found. It is very 
common in Texas and evidentl} T is a southern species. 
The caterpillars of this species are parasitized by Glyptapanteles 
militaris Walsh and Meteorus vulgaris Cress. 
Fig. 2. — Feltia malefida: a, larva; /, moth- 
natural size (after Riley). 
THE VARIEGATED CUTWORM. 
(Peridroma savcia Hbn. Fig. 3.) 
This species prefers garden vegetables for food, but it has been taken 
upon corn and doubtless occasionally attacks cotton. It has been 
fully discussed by Doctor Chittenden/' and the following brief sum- 
« 1884: Kept, Coram, of Agric. f. 1884, pp. 292-293. 
b 1890: Insect Life, Vol. II, p. 283. 
a901: Bui. 29, n. s., Div. Exit, U. S. Dept. Agric., pp. 46-64, figs. 9-11. 
