98 CURRANT. 
lime-wash has been found useful for an application to walls, and 
probably carbolic acid might be very serviceably applied to prevent the 
Cockroaches making lodgments, or travelling through chinks, &c., into 
which the acid could be poured. 
Sulphur fumigation is of great use where the attack is on such a 
large scale as to make the great trouble which is necessary to carry 
out this plan serviceably worth while; but of these various methods 
of dealing with the pests I have given details in my ‘Twentieth Annual 
Report,’ therefore do not offer them again. But the thing of all others 
that needs attention in order to clear out Cockroaches effectually, is 
that after they have been stupified or apparently killed, the fact should 
be made sure of. 
CURRANT. 
Currant and Gooseberry Moth; Magpie Moth. Abrazas 
grossulariata, Stephens. 
ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA.—Moth at rest, and with wings spread; 
caterpillar walking. 
This pretty butterfly-like moth, known from the peculiarity of the 
markings on the wings as the Magpie, and also as the Harlequin Moth, 
is one of our most widely distributed garden leafage infestations, as it 
is to be found from the Orkney Islands at the north of Scotland to 
Kent and Devonshire in the south of England. 
