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Reaper Dart

Euxoa messoria

Plate XXII — Reaper Dart is Fig. 40
Plate XXII — Reaper Dart is Fig. 40

This wretched little creature, the larva of which is one of our most destructive cut-worms, was described seven times by Walker under different names. The more inconspicuous, or the smaller an insect, the more names it bears. The littlest bugs have the biggest names. It is thus also, sometimes, with men.