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collar is edged with black ; and the abdomen is light brown- 
ish gray. It expands one inch and four tenths. 
The smallest of these rustic moths may be called Agrotig 
tesscllata (Fig. 221), the checkered 
rustic. It probably comes near to 
the ocellina and aquilina of Europe, 
which, however, I have not seen. 
The fore wings are dark ash-colored, 
and exhibit only a faint trace of the 
transverse double wavy bands ; the 
two ordinary spots are large and pale, and alternate with 
a triangular and a square deep black spot ; there is a smaller 
black spot near the base of the wing. The hind wings are 
brownish gray in the middle, and blackish behind. It ex- 
pands one inch and one quarter. 
The fifth species I am assured by one of my friends is the 
moth of the cabbage cut-worm. It agrees, in the main, with 
the description given of the Plialcena Noctua devastator , by 
Mr. John P. Brace, in the first volume of Professor Silli- 
man’s “American Journal of Science”; and may therefore 
be called Agrotig devastator. It somewhat resembles Dr. 
Boisduval’s figures of the Agrotis latens of Europe. The 
fore wings are of a dark ashen-gray color, with a lustre like 
satin ; they are crossed by four narrow wavy whitish bands, 
which .are edged on each side with black ; there is a trans- 
verse row of white dots followed by a row of black, arrow- 
shaped spots, between the third and fourth bands, and three 
white dots on the outer edge near the tip ; the ordinary spots 
are edged with black and white, and there is a third spot, of 
an oval shape and blackish color, near the middle of the 
wing, and touching the second band. The hind wings arc 
light brownish gray, almost of a dirty white in the middle, 
and dusky behind. The head and thorax are chinchilla- 
gray ; and the abdomen is colored like the hind wings. It 
expands from one inch and five eighths to one inch and three 
quarters. This kind of moth is very common between the 
Fig. 221. 
