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Living in the inside of the stem  of oats in ^ [[insertion]] two or three of the middle [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] about the 4th & 5th [[/strikethrough]] joints [[strikethrough]] above the roots [[/strikethrough]], the division between which it gnaws through, cutting off partially the ^ [[insertion]] last [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] 5th [[/strikethough]] joint inside the sheath so that the oats are blasted ^ [[insertion]] turning white [[/insertion] & come to nothing, & perforating a round hole in ^ [[insertion]] some one of the [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] the 4th [[/strikethrough]] joints .07 - .08 inch in diameter for the  moth to make its exit, a 16-footed caterpillar .7 - 1 inch long & .08 to .10 inch in diameter.
Head honey - yellow with a lateral black stripe tapering at base [[slip?]]; mandibles black. [[line]] [T.O] 
About end of June noticed one of these larvae at layer close to a grown piece of wheat in Dunlap's field.