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trace of dorsal line^ subdorsal more distinct. Between the dorsal and sub¬ 
dorsal regions, in the lighter specimens, is a faint dirty yellow shade 
Between the subdorsal and stigmata are two other distinct pale lines. 
Piliferous spots black, nead light brown, with a dark brown spot each 
side and dark brown above. Inverted Y mark light brown: cervical 
shield dark brown, a faint stripe in the dorsal and subdorsal regions, 
undei side of body dull lead color ■ legs brown. 
Moth. Expanse of wings 1.76 inches; ground color of fore wines 
carrying a brownish gray to dark brown, different specimens varying 
greatly the general character being the subterminal space brownish 
gray, with the front edge of the wing dark brown, the rest of the 
vnng a little lighter brown. The basal t. a. and t. p. lines, as well 
as the transverse shade, obscure, except in the posterior part of the 
wing in the lighter specimens. The subterminal line light edged 
with dark very strongly angulated, two of the points opposite the 
re n i for in black, the first almost or quite met by a similar lance-shaped 
point from the upper part of reniform, the line in this region much 
deflected towards the reniform, the rest of its course nearer the outer 
margin than usual, terminal space, except the apical, dark, anti-apical 
not prominent; head brown, prothorax and thorax lilac gray, a light 
and a dark brown line on the former. Antenna; pectinate in the 
Agrotis saucia, Hub. — The Unarmed Rustic. 
• e 7 a if tIl 'r Variegated Cut worm. This species is the Aqrotis 
inermis of Harris and the Agrotis Ortonii, of Packard. This is 
also widely distributed, and it is probable that we have no 
ef \Vhnp le l..v ha V fS r°7 vo / acious or is a more general feed¬ 
er While some kinds of cut-worms are not found much out of 
certain situations, this may be sought in any place, during its sea- 
®°"’Y,. ; a S°? d . Prospect of finding it. There seems to be no culti- 
vated crop that is free from its attacks, and when these are not at 
hand it readily preys upon weeds that are found in the fields and by 
I finTthatfhe yys of observations during the past season 
d that the first time this worm made its appearance at Irvington 
w here I was then located, was May 14, 1877, and that in a hot-bed" In 
the iJtlf the 7 We it t°n be f ° Und in , the S ardens and fields. Towards 
earlv Aht ‘ m - 0nth hey a PP eare d in their attack upon a patch of 
entin n b ges ’ A n a y"; role. They had ascended the stalks and 
eaten their way through the incipient heads, that were now forming, 
,Y l ,T U Y r ' iCt r S ’ , and lay coiled U P in the moist places they had 
hiding in^he'T/Ih 68 dunn S the clear almost cloudless days, instead of 
exhibft^ th ^e earth as usual with cut-worms. In this instance they 
exhibited some of the characteristics of borers, not eating from the 
edge of the leaf but truly boring through several thicknesse® of leaves 
that were packed together into heads two or three inches in diameter 
inject < jn S tb V e atl0nS -r ‘r ®t P^ evalence a *d destructive habits of this 
insect m the vicinity of Irvington, are but an index of what mmht 
from A d Tv 0 w pa Jm 0f the State ' 1 have received the moth 
from A. S. \ an Winkle, of Trenton, Clinton County, as the moth of 
