INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE GOOSEBERRY. 



ATTACKING THE BRANCHES. 



No. 218. The Mealy Flata. 



PcBciloptera pruinosa Say. 



This is a small, four-winged bug, which attacks the suc- 

 culent shoots of the gooseberry, and sometimes the leaves, 

 sucking the juices. It is wedge-shaped, about one-third of an 

 inch loug, almost twice as high as wide, of a dusky bluish 

 color, covered with white, meal-like powder, its 

 wing-covers showing some faint white dots, and * 

 near their base three or four dusky ones. 



The insect is shown in Fig. 367 ; it is not con- 

 fined to the gooseberry, but is found on the grape, also on the 

 privet and on various other shrubs. 



ATTACKING THE FRUIT. 



No. 219. The Gooseberry Fruit^worm. 



Dakruma convolutella (Hiibn.). 



This injurious insect spends the winter in the chrysalis state, 

 enclosed in a snug, brown, papery-looking cocoon, shown at a 

 in Fig. 368, which is hidden among leaves or other rubbish on 

 the surface of the ground. During the 

 latter part of April the moth appears Fl ' 8 ^ 



(See 6, Fig. 368.) Its wings, when 

 expanded, measure nearly an inch 

 across. The fore wings are pale gray, 

 with dark streaks and bands ; there rt 

 is a transverse diffuse band a short distance from the base of 

 the wing, enclosing an irregular whitish line, which terminates 



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