Packard.] 
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of breathing holes are two more pale lines. There are 
eight black shining minute w'arts on each segment, each wart 
bearing a short hair. 
A third species of cut worm, whose parent was called 
by Harris the Clandestine Moth (Noctua clandestina ), is next 
to the Gothic Dart Moth, our 
most common species and may 
be found by day hiding under 
boards, etc. It flies only by 
night. It is a blackish moth 
with obscure markings. Its 
caterpillar is called by Riley 
the W-marked Cut Worm. It 
is an inch and an eighth long, 
and is “ash gray, inclining on 
the back and upper sides to 
dirty yellow; it is speckled 
I, t ,, Lance Bearer. • 
all over with black and brown 
spots.” He adds, that besides the usual lines on the side, 
“the distinguishing feature is a row of black velvety marks 
along each side of the back, on all but the thoracic segments 
[i. e ., the three succeeding the head] bearing a general 
Yia. ii. resemblance (look¬ 
ing from tail to head) 
to the letter W.” 
These may be re¬ 
garded as examples 
of the group of cut 
worms, of which we 
have numerous 
Cochrane’s Dart Moth. . .. . 
forms. All, how¬ 
ever, seem to agree in the special mode of attack. They cut 
young plants square off, near the ground, and then luxuriate 
on the soft pulpy centre of the stalk. One species in the 
west (.Agrotis Cochrani, Fig. 11) ascends pear and apple trees 
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