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INJURIOUS INSECTS 



left-hand side in figure 123, of a shining mahogany color. 

 In about fourteen days it bursts the pupa shell, and, 

 early in July, appears as a moth, represented in figure 123, 

 the upper one being the male, with feathered feelers, and 

 the lower the female, in which these are simple. The 



Fig. 123. GOOSEBERRY 



(Mufttchia ribearia). 



moth is of a pale nankin-yellow color, the wings shaded 

 with faint dusky leaden-colored spots arranged so as not 

 to present any definite pattern. The female lays her 

 eggs on the branches and twigs of the bushes, hence the 

 species is frequently carried in the egg state upon trans- 

 planted bushes from one neighborhood to another; which 

 accounts for its sudden appearance in parts where it was 

 before unknown. For there is but one brood of this 



