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Agrotis bicarnea, Guenee. 
Of the larva of this species I know nothing. As it is occasionally 
found in the State and resembles somewhat the female of the pre¬ 
ceding, I will point out the differences that the two may not be con¬ 
founded. It differs in the fore wings being darker, almost or quite a 
purple black, lacks the carneous spot in the orbicular but has a small 
carneous spot between the ante-apical and the t. p. line, another larger 
between the basal and t. a lines below which is the black claviform. 
The hind wings are darker. 
Agrotis subgothica, Haw.—The Gothic Dart. 
The larva is the Dingy Cut-worm. This species is found over quite 
a wide range of territory, as given by Grote, from the Atlantic dis¬ 
trict to Colorado. Of its ravages, Prof. RTey quotes Mr. Horace 
Starkey, of-Rockford, as stating that they were quite destructive to 
gardens in the vicinity, and C. E. Worthington makes, in a recent 
communication to me, a similar statement. Glover in one of his re¬ 
ports, speaks of them as having the habit of cutting off plants by 
night and dragging them to the mouth of their retreat to feed upon 
the next day, while they lay hid from observation. They are, when 
full grown, about an inch long, and marked similar to the Western 
Striped Cut-worm. They remain in the larva state till about the first 
of July before they change. The moths that issue about the first of 
September, are gray, the orbicular open and included in a light streak 
extending along the costa, the reniform or kidney shaped spot yel¬ 
low, black each side of the stigmata, which is separated from the 
claviform by a light median stripe, the hind wings white with a lit¬ 
tle white around the border. 
Spec. Char. Larva .—Length one inch, similar marked to that of 
A. henlis , with the colors darker and more dingy, the longitudinal 
lines less conspicuous, and the dorsum pale buff color.—Rile°y. 
Moth.- Expanse of wings 1.35 inches. Ground color of fore wings 
gray with a smoky tinge, flecked with white scales along the costal 
and hind margin, the medial vein distinctly white. Orbicular open 
in front and of the same color as the front margin. Orbicular large, 
buff, each side of the stigmata brownish black, those parts each side 
of the orbicular united below, the edging to the stigmata bright 
black, claviform black, reaching to the middle of wing, interrupted 
by the t. a. line. T. p. line only marked by four or five black points 
extending inward in the middle part of its course. Terminal spaces, 
except the apex, and anteapical, smoky black, not very dark. Hind 
wings pearly white, bordered with a narrow dark border that reaches 
nearly to the anal angle. Antennae pectinate in the males. 
