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TN.SFCTS INFESTING THE CURRANT. 



CHAPTER CXXXVTI. 



The Currant Span-worm. 



( Eufiichia ribearia. — Fitch. ) 



Synonym. — Abraxas, or Ellopia ribearia. 



Order, LEPiDorTEKA : Family, Phal^nid^e. 



M I 1 I 1 I I I I I lilil 



[The moasiirements of insects in this work are given in inches and lines. The above cut rep- 

 resents one inch divided into lines and fractions thereof.) 



[Feeding upon the leaves of currant and gooseberry bushes ; 

 a whitish ten-legged ^pan-worm, marked with yellow stripes 

 and numerous black spots.] 



Fig. 210. — C u r r a n t Fig- '^K'- 



Span-worms and Pupa ; 

 a and b, the worms in 

 different positions — col- 

 ors, yellow and black ; c, 

 the pupa — color, brown. 



This span-worm (Fig. 

 210, n and b), when fully 

 grown, measures a little 

 over an inch in length, 

 is of a wliitish color, spot- 

 ted with b 1 a c- k , a n d 

 marked with a yellow 

 stri]>e 111! tlie Itack and a 

 similar mie on each siile 

 of the liody : tlii' under 

 side of the body is also 

 white, and has a yellow 

 line in the middle. When 

 about to i)Ui)ate, it deserts tlie bushes and creeps l)eneath the 

 fallen leaves, etc., or enters the earth and forms a small cell 

 in which to undergo its transformations. (Fig. 210'-.) 



