108 GOOSEBEKKY. 



when he put them into the hox, but supposed they would be 

 when they reached me, which proved to be the case ; all the 

 specimens — that is, the caterpillars of the Gooseberry Saw- 

 fly — were dead when I received them on the following day. 



From the importance of the Gooseberry crop, and also on 

 account of the prevalence and the destructiveness of the 

 Gooseberry Sawfly, it has seemed desirable to give more than 

 usual space to methods which have been found serviceable in 

 combating this infestation, but a line or two may be added as 

 to where (judging by communications addressed to me) re- 

 medial measures especially fail. 



One point that should be more attended to is destruction of 

 the cocoons. If they are only scraped from beneath the bushes 

 and thrown aside, little good will probably have been done. 



Another point is that powder dressing should be thrown so 

 as to adhere, that is, when naturally or artificially the bushes 

 are damp. 



And also, thirdly, sufficient attention is not always paid to 

 the lime being hot. 



The "Allied" Sawfly.'" Nematus consobrinus, Y oil. 



In the year 1882 Mr. Taylor, writing from The Gardens, 

 Longleat, Somerset, observed that, besides the common 

 Gooseberry Sawfly caterpillar, with which he was familiar, 

 he had noticed a smaller kind, which appeared a month or 

 six weeks later. Like N. ribesU, this laid its eggs, and the 

 caterpillars fed, on the leaves ; but though in some seasons 

 they were as numerous as those of the common kind, usually 

 only about three hatched on each leaf. 



The sample of the small green sawfly caterpillar sent me 

 corresponded with the figure and description of the somewhat 

 rarely observed Nematus consohrinus. Of this species Mr. P. 

 Cameron t observes: — "The larva feeds in early summer on 

 the leaves of the Gooseberry. It has a green head, marked 

 more or less with little black points, and bearing soft hairs. 

 The body is green, shining ; the skin beset all over with 

 transverse rows of black tubercles, each bearing a hair ; the 

 second segment, and more or less of the last, and the sides 

 over the legs, yellow. . . . When young the head is black, 



* As we appear to be without any English name for this species, of which 

 one characteristic is its great likeness to the N. ribesii, perhaps the word 

 "allied," which fairly represents the "cousinship" of the scientific specific 

 appellation, may be admissible. 



t See ' Monograph of British Phytophagous Hymenoptera,' vol. ii. pp. 131- 

 133; and figure of larva, vol. i. pi. vii. fig. 5. 



