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Cabbage insects—C ontinued. 
The W-inarked cut-worm, Agrotis clandestina.... . 293 
Food-plants, 293—Habits, 294—Larva and moth popularly de¬ 
scribed, 294. 
The greasy cut-worm, Agrotis ypsilon ... 294 
Synonymy, 294—Distribution, 294—Habits, 294—Food-plants, 
294— Hibernation, 295—Larva and moth popularly described, 
295— Description of egg, 295. 
The speckled cut-worm, Mamestra subjuncta .... 296 
Distribution, 296—Habits, 296—Appearance, 296. 
The glassy cut-worm, Hadena devastatrix . 296 
Past history, 297—Natural history, 297—Characters, 297. 
The variegated cut-worm, Agrotis saucia ... 297 
Distribution, 297—Food-plants, 297—Egg and early states de¬ 
scribed, 298—Rapidity of development, 298. 
Remedies for cabbage cut-worms. 298 
Unsatisfactory remedies, 298—Wrapping the stem, 298—Trapping 
the worms, 299—Ditching, 299—Fall plowing, 299—The great 
value of poisoned bait, 299. 
Other cabbage insects.. 300 
The imbricated snout-beetle, Epicosrus imbricatm . 300 
Distribution, 300—Food-plants, 300—Habits, 301—Remedies, 
301—An allied imported insect, said to injure cabbage, 301. 
The wavy-striped flea-beetle, Phyllotreta viitata . 301 
Food-plants, 301—Habits, 301—Injury, 302—Early states, 302— 
Remedies, 302. 
Zimmermann’s flea-beetle, Phyllotreta zimmermanni .. 304 
Food-plants, 304—Habits of larva, 307—Characters as compared 
with the wavy-striped flea-beetle, 305—Early states described, 
306—Other species of the group, 307—Their habits, 307—Nat¬ 
ural enemies, 307 —Pleurotropis phyllotretoe n. sp. described, 308. 
The Colorado cabbage flea-beetle, Phyllotreta albionica .. 308 
How it differs from the preceding species, 308—Mention of a 
Pacific coast species, 308. 
The Colorado potato-beetle, Doryphora 10 -lineata ... 308 
Mentioned as sometimes eating cabbage, 308. 
The harlequin cabbage-bug, Murgantia hislrionica . 309 
Distribution, 309—Its spread to the North and East, 309—Food- 
plants, 310—Natural history, 310—Amount of damage, 311— 
Natural enemy, 311—Remedies, 311—Applications, 311—Clean 
cultivation, 311—Destroying the early broods, 311—Kerosene, 
312. 
The tarnished plant-bug, Lygus pratensis . 312 
Distribution, 312—Food-plants, 312—Synonymy, 312—Supposed 
carnivorous habit, 312—Effects of its puncture, 313—Variation 
in color, 313—Habits, 313—As an enemy to strawberries, 314— 
Remedies, 314—Preventive measures, 315—Applications, 315. 
The false chinch-bug, Nysius angustatus . 315 
Synonymy, 315—Food-plants, 316—Habits, 316—Remedies, 316. 
The cabbage plant-louse, Aphis brassicce . 317 
An imported insect, 317—Damage, 317— Habits, 317—Life-his¬ 
tory, 318—Natural enemies, 318—Remedies, 318. 
The cabbage Anthomyia, Antliomyia brassicce . 319 
Introduced from Europe, 319—Life-history, 320—Natural ene¬ 
mies, 320—Remedies, 321, \ 
