INSECTS INFESTING THE CURRANT. 223 



Fij?. 211. Fig. 21 1 .—Currant Span-worm Moth 



(female) — colors, 3^ellow and leaden. 



The wings of the perfect moth (Fig. 

 211) expands about an inch, are of a 

 pale yellowish color, marked with sev- 

 eral dusky spots. 

 V^^ ^ ^w^ rpj^-g j^^^^j^ appears in June or July, 



and deposits her eggs upon the stalks of the currant and 

 gooseberry bushes ; these eggs do not hatch until the following 

 Spring, there being but one brood of . these insects produced 

 in one year. 



Remedies. — When the larvae appear on the foliage, use No. 

 64 or 1^0. 5, or No. 7. See, also, No. 80. 



CHAPTER CXXXVIII. 



The Progne Butterfly. (Cal.) 



( Grapta -progne. — Fabricius.) 



Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, Nymphalid.e. 



[Feeding upon the leaves of the currant and gooseberry 

 bushes ; a grayish sixteen-legged caterpillar, thinly covered 

 with whitish spines tipped with black.] 



"When fully grown, this caterpillar measures about one inch 

 and three lines in length ; the body is marked with alternate 

 l)lack and white bands, and on each side are two rows of yel- 

 low spots. When about to pupate, it suspends itself by the 

 hind feet. 



The pupa or chrysalis is pale brown, faintly clouded on the 

 sides with olive-brown, and the abdomen is broadly striped 

 with the same color on the back and sides ; across the middle 

 of the back is a deep depression, on each side of Avhich are two 

 silvery spots. 



The fore-wings of the butterfly expand about one inch and 

 ten lines, are of a reddish-brown color, marked with black 

 spots ; the outer edges of the wings are scolloped ; the under 



