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streaks of reddish brown inclining to rust red, along all the veins, 
about three somewhat irregular transverse lines of the same, and a 
large patch at the apex. Hind wings smoky. 
Remedies .—The habits being similar to the Stalk Borer, similar reme¬ 
dies may be employed as w T ith that species. 
Spec. char. Moth .—Expanse of wings 1.25 inches. The fore wing 
less pointed at the apex, and the hind margin proportionally longer 
than in the genus Gortyna. Ground color of fore wings gray, streaked 
along the veins with reddish brown, with somewhat transverse lining 
of the same at the base, the transverse shade and the shading of the 
subterminal line, the t. a. and the t. p. lines indistinctly the same. 
At the apex, on the hind margin in the subterminal space, and inside 
the t. a. line, are three “rust red” or orange red spots. Stigmata 
obscure. Hind wings smoky browrn, not very dark. Thorax tufted 
as in Gortyna ; all but the basal segment of the abdomen of the male 
tufted; the female less conspicious, the tufts, except the anal, tipped 
with reddish orange. The male is a little smaller than the female. 
Leucania (Heliophila) harveyi, Grote.—The Wheat-head Army- 
worm Moth. 
The caterpillar of this species has been found several times feeding 
upon the heads of wheat and other small grains and grasses in various 
parts of the Northern United States in such numbers as to do a great 
deal of injury, and give rise to the name Wheat-head Army-worm. 
There are two broods of the moths in a season, the first in May, that lay 
3ggs from which the worms are produced that eat the winter wheat 
Tom the time it heads out till it is in the milk state ; the second 
brood the last of July. The caterpillars from these attain their growth in 
September, and pass the winter in chrysalis state. 
The full grown larva is a little over an inch long and is striped 
svith sulphur yellow, straw yellow and light and dark brown, as 
follows: 
“ A broad, dark brown line along the back, divided along the mid¬ 
lie by a fine white line generally obsolete behind; beneath this broad 
ine, on each side, a straw yellow line half as wide ; then a light 
3rown one of the same width as the last, and becoming yellow on the 
oweredge; then a narrower dark brown one, containing the white 
spiracles; then a sulphur yellow as wide as the third; then a less 
listinct light brown subventral one, the venter being pale yellow. 
The head is large, straw-colored, and with two attenuating brown 
narks from the top to the lower face.”—Riley. 
The moths are smaller than the regular arn^-worm moths, expand- 
ng scarcely an inch and a half. The fore wings are straw color or 
ight ochre yellow, with a brownish ash colored longitudinal stripe 
ilong the costa and another through the middle of the wing, the 
atter expanding T-like at the outer end so as to reach from the apex 
.0 the hind angle. The distinguishing feature is a white line thai 
•uns from the base along the median vein and crosses the second dark 
)and obliquely in the middle and bends downwards towards the hind 
ingle. 
