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‘the present time be modified, for the cabbage looper is not only 
as numerous, but it is more difficult to combat than is the cabbage 
worm. It is also a more general feeder, hence more plants must 
be protected from its ravages. Writers on entomology have al- 
ways given the cabbage looper credit for doing more damage in 
the South than in the North. Whether the marked increase in the 
amount of damage done the past few years on Long Island is 
due to the fact that this section furnishes favorable southern con- 
ditions, or whether the looper is gradually migrating north, is not 
known. 
DESCRIPTION. 
As the cabbage looper is not generally as well known as the 
cabbagé worm a short popular-description is given. 
Adult or moth.— The male is distinguished from the female 
moth or miller by having a distinct tuft of reddish-brown hairs on 
each side of the abdomen near the cauda, or tail; the cauda itself 
being covered with a short tuft of dark drown hairs. Both male 
and female moths have the fore wings mottled with dark brown, 
brown and white; so that, when resting on the ground, they re- 
semble the soil. On the upper surface near the center of each 
forewing there is a silvery white mark, which in most cases resem- 
bles the figure 8; occasionally it is simply a. dot-and-dash-like 
mark. ‘The head and fore-body (thorax) are dark, ashy erey, mot- 
tled with brown. The abdomen, or hind-body, and hind-wings 
are fawn color, varying to a dark brown near the outer margin, 
the latter bordered with white. See Figs. 1 and 2, Plate XLII. 
When spread the wings measure from one to one and one one-half 
inches. ; 
Egg.— The egg is about as large as a black mustard seed,.and 
shaped somewhat lke a turnip. It is ribbed, and in color is 
nearly pure white. (Plate XLII, Fig. 3.) 
Larva or caterpillar.— When about one-fourth grown the cater- 
pillar, or looper, is nearly as dark green as the cabbage worm and 
is distinctly marked on the sides of the body with longitudinal 
