STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
COT-WORMS. MOTH OF THE STRIPED WORM DESCRIBED. 
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separated by two pale ones, whereof the lower one is broader; often a some¬ 
what glaucous white stripe below the lower dark one, and all the underside 
below this dull white. This is the best concise general description of thd 
worm that I am able to give, the characters stated being sometimes quite 
faint, but in most instances sufficiently plain and distinct. I proceed to 
give a more full description of the several parts. The head is shining black, 
with a white stripe in the middle, which stripe is forked, resembling an 
inverted letter Y. The nose piece and uppei; lip. are whitish, the former 
being wrinkled or longitudinally striated, and. the latter having a trans¬ 
verse row of white bristles. The jaws are black and four-toothed. On 
each side is usually a white spot, and in other instances the whole head is 
more or less mottled with white, or is throughout of a tarnished white color 
with only a dusky streak on each side of its base. The neck above is of 
the same shining black color and horny substance as the head, with a white 
stripe in the middle, continuous with that upon the head, and a stripe on 
each side, curving slightly outward at its hind eAd. The sides of the neck 
are dull white, with a short double blackish stripe across the middle. The 
hack is ash gray, this color forming a stripe along each side of the middle, 
where are two dusky lines, and between them a whitish line of the same 
thickness. The sides are dark gray or of the same dusky shade as the two 
lines on the middle of the back, this color being divided into three stripes 
of equal width by two faint pale lines, the lower one broader and formed 
of spots mottling the surface. These pale lines sometimes take on a glau¬ 
cous white appearance, and sometimes adjoining the lower dusky stripe on 
its underside is a third glaucous white stripe, which is broader than those 
above it, and along its lower edge are the breathing pores, forming a row 
of oval coal black dots. The underside, including all below the breathing 
pores, is dull whitish, the legs being varied with smoky brown, and the 
pro-legs having a ring of this color at their base. 
The Moth is represented, plate 4, figure 2, with its wings spread, and 
figure 3 as we usually see it when at rest and with its wings closed. It 
measures 0.10 in length and 1.30 across its extended wings, and is of an ash 
or dusky gray color, and distinguished principally by two coal black spots, 
one nearly square, placed outside of the centre of the fore wings, and the other 
nearly triangular, a little forward of it, a roundish nearly white spot sep¬ 
arating them. Its head is gray, and its palpi or feelers are blackish upon 
their outer side. These organs are held obliquely forward and upward and 
are densely covered with erect hairy scales, giving them a short, thick 
outline of a compressed cylindrical form, and cut off transversely at then- 
ends, with a small naked joint protruding therefrom, little longer than 
thick, and scarcely a third of the thickness of the joint from which it pro¬ 
jects. Coiled up between the palpi and slightly visible on their underside 
is the long spiral tongue or trunk. The antennae are slender, thread-like, 
hut tapering towards their tips. They are simple in the females, and in 
the male are toothed like a saw along their opposite sides, the teeth being 
sharp and fringed with minute hairs at their tips. The thorax is the thickest 
part of the body and is of a square form, as is very evident when tho 
