Life History.

This moth, as shown by No. 1, has broad and rather short upper, or fore-wings of a reddish brown with three light or whitish streaks or rays; while the lower wings are yellowish grey with page 44 pale fringes. In the summer the moths may be seen in some places in swarms, and the caterpillars appear also to congregate and move in masses like locusts. Miss Ormerod well describes this habit of moving on in bodies, clearing away the vegetation as they proceed.

The female moth lays from one hundred and fifty to two hundred eggs in small quantities at a time upon the stalks and blades of grasses. After three weeks the larvæ come forth and go into the ground and live on the roots of grasses, hibernating in this state, and changing to the pupa and moth forms in the summer.