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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW YORK 
CUT-WORMS. WINGS OP THE MOTH DESCRIBED. 
wings are spread. It is gray, with a black band in front, edged on its hind 
side with an ash gray one, paler than the ground; and on the shoulder at 
the base of the fore wings is usually a small spot of dull pale yellow 
•The abdomen is tapering and somewhat flattened, dusky grayish, paler 
towards its base, its <tip more blunt in the male than in the female and 
covered with a brush of hairs. The legs are blackish gray and hairy on 
their undersides, the spurs at the end of the middle and hind shanks being 
black in their middle and white at each end. The feet are five-jointed, long 
and tapering, the first joint much the longest and the follo'wing ones suc¬ 
cessively shorter. They are gray, gradually passing into black at their 
ends, each joint having a white ring at its tip. The wings in repose are 
laid flat, one upon the .other, in a horizontal position, sometimes so closed 
together that their opposite sides are parallel, but oftener widening back¬ 
ward (as represented in figure 3), and forming a broad shallow notch at 
their hind end. The fore wings vary in color from ash gray to dusky gray, 
and sometimes have a tawny reddish reflection. Their outer edge is gray¬ 
ish black, with irregular alternations of black spots having an ash gray 
spot between them, and towards the tip are about three equidistant pale 
gray dots. The costal area or narrow space between the outer edge and 
the first longitudinal vein is pale ash gray, gradually becoming dull and 
obscure beyond the middle. At the base, on the outer edge, are two black 
spots or short transverse streaks, with a pale gray streak between them, and 
opposite these, on the basal middle of the wing, are similar streams placed 
obliquely, which are frequently faded to a blackish cloud-like spot, with a 
pale gray streak crossing its middle. Outside of the central part of the 
wing are the stigmas, two large roundish pale gray spots, having a 
square coal-black spot between them and a triangular one forward of 
them. The anterior one of these stigmas is broad oval, almost circular, 
and placed obliquely, with its outer end more towards the base of the 
wing than is the inner end. It is of a uniform pale gray color, slightly 
paler than any other part of the wing. Its edge is well defined by the 
black color surrounding it, except at its outer end, where it is incom¬ 
plete, being confluent with the ash gray color of the costal area. 
The hinder stigma is kidney-shaped, being concave on its hind side, 
and occupying this concavity is a pale gray spot or cloud, quite variable 
in its size in different specimens, and frequently taking on a buff or cream 
yellow tinge. This stigma is brownish or watered gray, becoming paler 
along its anterior edge, its ends, particularly the inner one, being vague 
and indefinite, blending with the adjacent coloring, sometimes so much so 
that only its middle portion is distinct. Between these stigmas is a large 
square spot of a coal black color, occupying the whole space between the 
two midvein-s of the wings, its fore and hind sides made concave by the 
rotundity of the stigmas which bound it upon these sides. Forward of the 
anterior stigma is a second black spot of a somewhat triangular form, also 
occupying the whole space between the two mid veins at this point. On its 
hind side it is concave and cut off obliquely by the obliquity of the stigma, 
whereby it is prolonged along the inner vein, usually into a long acute 
