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GOOSEBERRY. 



given above, which provides the Earwigs with accessible 

 warm, dark, and dry lodging, out of which they can be 

 shaken in the morning, is, so far as we know at present, the 

 most serviceable plan. 



GOOSEBEREY. 



Dot Moth. Mamestra persicaricc, Linu. 



Mamestka persicaei^. — Dot Moth (from life) ; caterpillar, after figure 

 by Dr. Tascheiiberg. 



Mamestra 'persicari(E, or Dot Moth, is very common and 



widely distributed in England, as well as in various parts 



of the Continent ; but although the caterpillar is a very 



general feeder, it has only been in one year (1890) that 



observations have been sent of it occurring as a fruit-crop 



13est. It does not, however, appear to have been generally 



observed as being prevalent in that year, for I do not find any 



reference to it in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'; 



and the only reference to the presence of this species in the 



' Entomologist ' is a short editorial reply to a correspondent, 



who inquired whether ivy on which he found the caterpillars 



feeding was not an unusual food-plant. The reply mentioned 



that the larvae of M. jjeisicarice have been noticed this year 



feeding on Ivy, Poplar, Lilac, Plum, Clematis, and Easpberry ; 



the bulk of them were some shade of brown. 



