THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 5 



body, but with an irregular grayish patch at each side. On the twelfth 

 segment there is a low fleshy ridge margined behind with deep reddish 

 brown and an oblique stripe of the same color extends forward nearly to 

 the spiracle on this segment. The terminal segment is flattened and has 

 a number of small pale reddish and blackish tubercles scattered over its 

 surface. Along the sides of the body close to the under surface there is 

 a thick fringe of short fleshy-looking hairs of a delicate pink color. 



The under surface is also of a delicate pink, of a deeper shade along 

 the middle, becoming bluish towards the margins with a central row of 

 nearly round black spots which are largest from the seventh to the eleventh 

 segments inclusive. The anterior segments are greenish-white tinted with 

 rosy pink along the middle, with a dull reddish spot at the base behind 

 each pair of feet. 



When about to change to a chrysalis the larva makes a rough enclosure 

 by drawing together fragments of leaves and fastening them with silken 

 threads, within which it undergoes its transformation and appears as a 

 moth in about three weeks afterwards. 



The moth is on the wing during the greater part of July and August, 

 is attracted by light and comes freely to sugar. All the insects of this 

 family are night-flyers and expose their brilliant hind wings only in flight. 

 When at rest the gray or dull brown upper wings overlap and cover up the 

 gaily tinted under wings like a very flat roof. 



The American Currant Borer (Psenocerus super notatus). 



The accompanying cut (fig. 2) represents an enlarged view of a native 



currant borer, Psenocerus supcrnotatus ; the small 



outline figure shows the natural size. It is a beetle 



belonging to the family of longicorns, Ccrambycidce, 



which doubtless had its home originally among the 



wild currant bushes of our woods, but a more 



extended and inviting field having been opened for Flg - 2 - 



it by the planting of the cultivated varieties in our gar- 

 dens, it has taken kindly to them, and although not so 

 destructive as the imported currant borer, Egeria tipuli- 

 formis (fig. 3), has in many instances proved quite trouble- 

 some. In nearly all our gardens numbers of the currant 



stalks annually perish, and were it not for the vigorous growth of new 



shoots from year to year, the bushes would soon be destroyed. If one 



