INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE GOOSEBERRY. 



ATTACKING THE BEANOHES. 



No. 218.— The Mealy Flata. 



rceciloptera pruinosa Say. 



This is a small, four-winged bug, which attacks the suc- 

 culent shoots of the gooseberry, and sometimes the leaves, 

 sucking the juices. It is wedge-shaped, about one-third of an 

 inch long, almost twice as high as wide, of a dusky bluish 

 color, covered with white, meal-like powder, its 

 wing-covers showing some faint white dots, and ^^* 

 near their base three or four dusky ones. 



The insect is shown in Fig. 367 ; it is not con- 

 fined to the gooseberry, but is found on the grape, also on the 

 privet and on various other shrubs. 



ATTACKING THE FRUIT. 



No. 219. — The Gooseberry Fruit-worm. 



Dakruma convolutella (HUbn.). 



This injurious insect spends the winter in the chrysalis state, 

 enclosed in a snug, brown, papery-looking cocoon, shown at a 

 in Fig. 368, which is hidden among leaves or other rubbish on 

 the surface of the ground. During the 

 latter part of April the moth appears. 

 (See 6, Fig. 368.) Its wings, when 

 expanded, measure nearly an inch 

 across. The fore wings are pale gray, 

 with dark streaks and bands ; there 

 is a transverse diffuse band a short distance from the base ot 

 the wing, enclosing an irregular whitish line, which terminates 



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