Defn: Any one of numerous species of noctuid moths belonging to Catocala and allied genera, in which the hind wings are banded with red and black or other conspicuous colors.
Zebra caterpillar, the larva of an American noctuid moth (Mamestra picta).
European noctuid moth Plusia gamma) which has a bright, silvery mark, shaped like the letter Y, on each of the fore wings.
Claviform: club-like in form; specifically, in Noctuid moths an elongate spot or mark extending from the t.
Capillitium: the hood-like collar in some Noctuid moths, e.
It is noteworthy that two of the kinds of insects frequently eaten (differential grasshoppers andnoctuid caterpillars) are of economic importance in that they damage crops.
Box turtles probably benefit man by destroying large numbers of crop-damaging insects (locustids and noctuid caterpillars).
A third difference is that the many insects found in stomachs were all orthopterans with the exceptions of three noctuid moths and the larva of a moth.
Illustrations will occur to any naturalist, but nowhere is this truth more strikingly presented than in the British Noctuid Moths.
For instance Plotheia frontalis, a Noctuid which often abounds in Ceylon, shows an equally bewildering wealth of forms.
I have taken this series of cases from the Noctuid moths, but it would be as easy to illustrate the same proposition from the Geometridae or the Micro-Lepidoptera.
Intermediates, combining these qualities in various degrees, were abundant, and the condition of the species, which was the only representative of the genus in the locality, recalls the extreme polymorphism of many of the Noctuid Moths.
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