Insects, etc., Injurious to Currants. 



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Kentish and Cambridgeshire plantations, and again in 1881 in 

 many English counties and also in Ireland. 



Ormerod (2) records its damage from Orkney and Sutherland- 

 shire, from Argyllshire, Fife, Midlothian, Cheshire, Herefordshire, 

 Herts, Wilts and Hants. 



I have never had any serious complaints of its damage, except 

 from Surrey and Middlesex. 



[A. V. D. Rintoul. 

 FIG. 158A. IMMATURE CATERPILLARS OF THE MAGPIE MOTH. 



In Scotland Mr. W. A Nicholson informs me it was very harmful 

 in Midlothian in 1908. 



Practically we can say it occurs all over the British Isles. 

 Currants have been attacked by it in Somersetshire, Devonshire, 

 Kent, Huntingdonshire and Sussex, but in no case was the damage 

 very serious. Most growers whom I have asked about it do not 

 consider it of much importance. 



The case is different in gardens, however, for in such sheltered 

 places as walled-in gardens, especially where the currants are trained 



