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down. ‘The flies come out of the chrysalids very soon, towards the 
middle of July; and if the infestation could be buried down altogether, 
by ploughing with a skim-coulter attached, or any way which put it 
well below the surface, much risk of recurrence would be saved. 
GOOSEBERRY. 
Gooseberry Red Spider. Bryobia pratiosa, C. L. Koch; also 
Bryobia ribis, n. sp. of Dr. Fr. Thomas. 
Bryopia PR#7I0sA, from life; B. spectosa (outline figure after Koch): both 
magnified. Leaf infested by Red Spider, nat. size. 
Notwithstanding the unusually severe and long continuance of cold 
in the early part of the year, the Gooseberry Red Spider, which was 
the cause of great loss to growers in the spring and early summer of 
1893, and also of 1894, reappeared in the middle of March and 
early part of April in the past season of 1895 to an amount which 
caused serious anxiety as to the extent of injury that might again be 
coming on. 
The infestation, however, which appeared in such quantities with 
the hot bright days, disappeared again (in the localities reported to 
me) during the occurrence of cold and wet; and afterwards, though 
there was much damage on grounds where the dressings which have 
been found to answer were not applied, the damage (so far as reported) 
was neither so widely spread nor so serious as in the two previous 
