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GOOSEBERRY. FRUIT. 



were thronged with this insect in the different stages of its growth. 

 This is the northern-most point where it has yet been discovered. 

 The preceding year the privet {Ligustrum vulgar e) in gardens in 

 the city of New- York was overrun with it, and a description of it 

 was published in the New-York Farmer and Mechanic newspaper, 

 of July 30, 1846, by Issachar Cozzens, under the name Flata 

 Ligustrum J he being unaware that it had previously been named 

 by Mr. Say. Further south it is quite common on various shrulis. 



149. GoosEBERRt MOTH. (Lepidoptera. Tineidae ?) 



The fruit when about half gro^\Ti perishing, its interior being 

 ate out by a slender greenish worm about half an inch long with 

 a dark colored nose, a dark band across the top of its neck, and 

 the tliree forward pairs of feet of the same color, which forms a 

 tube of silken threads from the cavity in the berry through a hole 

 in its side to an adjacent leaf, through which it crawls out and in. 



This is too interesting and important a depredator upon the 

 gooseberry to be passed unnoticed, although I have not yet 

 obtained it in its perfect state, it having generally completed its 

 work and left the bushes before its destructive operations were 

 observed. I have sometimes seen bushes of the wild ccooseberrv 

 with every berry withered and reduced to a mere dry liollow 

 shell with a cobweb-like tube protruding from the orifice in one 

 side. And tlie present summer a letter to the Country Gentle- 

 man from E. Graves, jr. of Ashfield, Mass., states that for tliree 

 years past, his " Houghton's seedling " gooseberries have been a 

 total failure, from this same worm, as I am assured by the account 

 which he gives of it and the specimens accompanying his letter. 



150. Gooseberry midge, Cecidomyia Grossularia, Fitch. (Diptcra. 

 Tipulidse.) 



The berries turning red prematurely and becoming putrid, and 

 having in tliem small briglit yellow maggots of an oblong u\;il 

 form and slightly divided into segments by fine impressed trans- 

 verse lines; changing to pupae in the berries and tlie latter part 

 of July giving out a small two-wincjcd tly resembling a musketo, 

 of a beeswax-yellow color, its wings hyaline aiul slightly smoky, 

 and its antennie blackish and twelve jointed. Length 0.10. See 

 Transactions, 1854, p. 880. 



