350 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE RED CURRANT. 



out, SO that it might easily be mistaken for the stem of a leaf. 

 Its body is pale green, with a darker, interrupted green line 

 down the back, indistinct, broken transverse lines of the same 

 color, and a yellow cross line on the posterior end of each 

 segment. There are two small tubercles on the segment im- 

 mediately behind the head, and the body is dotted with very 

 small whitish tubercles and a few short black hairs. In 

 some specimens there is. a small brown tubercle on each side 

 behind the middle, and a purplish-brown ridge on the last 

 segment. 



When mature, the larva descends to the ground and buries 

 itself in the earth, w'here it eventually changes to a chrysalis 



about seven-tenths of an 

 Fig. 863. inch long and of a dark- 



brown color, from which 

 the moth escapes the fol- 

 lowing spring. 



This is a handsome 

 moth (see Fig. 363), which, 

 when its wings are spread, 

 will measure two inches or more across. Both fore and hind 

 wings are gray, dotted and streaked with black, and with a 

 wavy light band crossing the wings beyond the middle. The 

 under surface is paler than the upper; the body gray, dotted 

 with black. 



This insect is a very general feeder, and on that account is 

 not likely ever to prove very destructive to the currant j it 

 has been found feeding also on the plum, Missouri currant, 

 red spirea, and maple. 



No. 212. — The Four-striped Plant-bug:. 

 Poecilocapsus lineatus (Fabr.). 



This is a bright-yellow bug, about three-tenths of an incli 

 long, with black antennae and two black stripes on each of 

 its wing-covers, the outer one on each side terminating in a 

 black dot. In Fig. 364 this insect is represented magnified, 



