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GOOSEBERRT. LEAVES. 



thi'ougliout the year. Even in winter on turning over an old log 

 one of these pretty little insects will sometimes leap into view 

 from among the surrounding dead leaves. It is subject to con- 

 siderable variations, the stripes being sometimes of a pale yellow 

 color and one or another of them wanting Commonly three 

 black or dusky dots may be seen on the Wing covers in an oblique 

 row forward of the membranous tips. 



The Companion leaf-hopper of the raspberry, the Three-banded 

 LEAF-HOPPER 105, aud scveral other species of this group will also 

 be met with upon currant bushes. 



11. THE GOOSEBERRY.— i??&e5 Grossularia, 



Most of the insects which are found upon the currant are 

 equally common upon the gooseberry, though the stalks of this 

 shrub are so well defended by prickles that they are rarely if 

 ever invaded by those borers which are so pernicious to the cur- 

 rant. In addition to the insects which are named under the cur- 

 rant, the following have been observed upon the gooseberry only. 



147. Gooseberry bark-louse, Lecanium Cynoshati, new species. (Homop- 

 tera. Coccidse.) 



On the stalks of the wild gooseberry {R. Cynoshati) ^ a hemis- 

 pheric, smooth, shining resin-brown scale, commonly freckled 

 with dull yellow dots and with a dull yellow stripe along its 

 middle. Length about 0.15. This is evidently a different species 

 from that which we have found upon the currant. 



148. Mealy Flata, PcEciloptera pruinosa, Say. (Homoptera. Fulgoridae.) 



In July and August, puncturing and sucking the juices of the 

 leaves and the young succulent shoots, a four- winged fly which 

 is strongly compressed and wedge-shaped, its height almost double 

 its width, of a dusky bluish color covered with white meal-like 

 powder, its legs straw-yellow, and its wing-covers showing some 

 faint white dots and near their base three or four dusky ones: 

 Length about 0.30. 



Ten years ago a gooseberry and pie-rhubarb growing contiguous 

 to each other in the yard in rear of the old State Hall in Albany 



