CURRANT SHOOT AND FRUIT MOTH. 55 
only one, sometimes two. These make their way out, and spin their 
cocoons, as above mentioned, on the bushes, in which they pass the 
winter, and out of which they come in spring to complete their growth, 
and do exceeding mischief to the bushes. 
The little moths, figured at p. 58, are only five-eighths of an inch 
across in spread of the fore wings, which are dark brownish or fuscous, 
sometimes with a purplish satiny gloss, a pale yellow band across the 
wing, and two patches, also pale yellow, about half-way between the 
yellow band and the tip of the wing; these patches respectively on 
the fore and hinder edges of the wing. The hinder wings are grey. 
PREVENTION AND Remepres.—Relatively to the infestation at Tod- 
dington in 1891, Mr. Wise remarked:—‘‘ The remedy we adopted for 
this pest was to pick off the infested shoots and burn them, which of 
course means a lot of labour; but what else were we to do?” A 
somewhat similar plan has also been found to answer well in checking 
mischief from attack of the little ““Red Bud Caterpillar” of the 
Raspberry shoots and fruit, the Lampronia rubiella, Bjerk, which feeds 
very similarly, by the small caterpillars coming out in spring and 
attacking the young buds and shoots, the attacks being similarly 
made observable by the fading of the young injured shoots which 
have survived attack whilst still in bud condition. Of this Mr. John 
Speir, of Newton Farm, Newton, Glasgow, N.B., favoured me with 
the following note on May 25th :— 
‘Since 1892 I have managed successfully to keep the Lampronia 
rubiella in complete subjection by cutting out all infested canes (in 
whole or part) at the time the caterpillars are in the bud, and at 
once burning them. Poultry I also find keep them considerably in 
check.” —(J. §.) 
When the Currant attack has become observably established, great 
care should be taken in clearing the shoots, lest the caterpillars should 
creep away ; and (obviously) the earlier in the infestation that attention 
can be devoted to it, the better. 
Something might also be done by clearing the prematurely ripening 
currants, in which the summer brood of caterpillars feed in their 
earliest condition; and as these have been found to spin their little 
white cocoons for hybernation especially amongst the dead scales to 
be found at the bases of buds and fruit spurs, something might be 
done by reducing the amount of harbourage. As the caterpillar is 
hardly one line long when it spins its white cocoon, little could be 
done individually with these; but still examination with a common 
hand-magnifier of just a few bushes would show whether many of the 
white cocoons were present, and proper trimming or dressing of the 
cut-back masses of old spurs or bases of stems during the winter 
