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RASPBERRY. 



tlie following segment ; they have three pairs of claw-feet, which are 

 black, and also four pairs of sucker-feet, and a pair at the end of the 

 tail. When examined through a magnifying glass it will be seen that 

 there is a pale line down the centre of the black head, and that the 

 mark on the following segment is composed of a pair of double-spots. 



Lajipeonia eubiella. 



Moth, magnified, and with Hues showing nat. size ; catei-pillars, nat. size, and 

 somewhat magnified from life ; caterpillar and chrysalis, greatly magnified, after 

 Prof. J. 0. Westwood in ' Gardeners' Chron.' for 1853, ^. 757. 



The attack is begun in spring by the little caterpillars (which live 

 in the caterpillar state through the winter) piercing into the young 

 buds, and with the advance of the season the mischief becomes very 

 noticeable by the fading of the young shoots which have not been de- 

 stroyed whilst still in bud condition. The infestation was described 

 many years ago by Prof. J. 0. Westwood, in the volume of the 

 * Gardeners' Chron.' for 1853, with good illustrations, from which I 

 borrow the characteristic figures of the caterpillar and chrysalis, much 

 magnified, given above. Of late years it has been occasionally noticed, 

 but I have never received any special report of it since 1883 until its 

 mischievous outbreaks in the past season, which have given opportunity 

 of adding very serviceable information to the previous observation of 

 its life-history. 



Some of the first observations of the presence of the caterpillar 

 were sent in last season much about the same time from Toddington 

 in Gloucestershire, and from near Glasgow, and from Crieff in 

 Scotland. 



On the 2nd of May, Mr. Wise wrote from Toddington, " I am sorry 

 to say the red maggot in the Easpberry is increasing in an alarming 

 extent in spite of our picking off all we could last season." 



The specimens sent me in infested buds corresponded with descrip- 

 tion of the larvae of the L. rabieUu, and later on I received a specimen 



