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GROUP II. 
The caterpillars belonging to this group have 16 legs, and they 
live in the fruit, stems, branches or roots of plants, shrubs or trees. 
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SYNOPSIS OP GROUP II. 
Larva lives in fruit or grain. 
Lives in ears of corn or bolls of cotton. 1 
Lives in apples, crab-apples, etc.2 
Larva lives in the stems or roots of plants. 
Body reddish brown, lined with white.8 
Body flesh-colored, whitish or pale greenish. 
Larva lives in cultivated currant bushes. 4 
Larva lives in aspen.5 
Larva lives in locust, oak, crab-apple, etc.6 
1 —Heliothis armigera .— 
Body pale ashen green, or 
pale green; dorsal region 
sometimes tinged with 
pink; sometimes a whitish 
dorsal line ; a dark-colored 
dorsal stripe, which is 
sometimes edged with yel¬ 
low; a dark-colored stripe 
on upper part of sub-dor¬ 
sal space; there is some¬ 
times a yellowish line above 
the spiracles and a whitish 
line below them; some¬ 
times a row of black pi¬ 
liferous dots on the dorsal 
space; above and back of 
each spiracle is a black 
piliferous spot; cervical 
shield grayish brown, or 
Fig. 51.—Heliothis armigera. Moth, pupa, larva and green, marked with black- 
eggs ’ ' ish; venter dark green, 
sometimes tinged with pink; or brownish, marked with three whitish 
lines; head shining Yellowish brown. Length, 1J inches. Feeds on 
Corn; living beneath the husks. August to November. Enters the 
earth. (D. W. Coquillett.) 
