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GARDEN FOES. 



the red and white currant, gooseberry, nut bushes, ami 

 now and then the raspberry. The moth is a graceful, 

 pretty Httle insect, with a black body relieved here and 

 there by yellow lines; the wings are transparent and bor- 

 dered with black, the forewings, which rarely exceed an 

 inch from tip to tip, having a black bar across them. It 

 is from the transparency of its wings that the moth has 



CURRANT CM^^H-WING MOTH (SElSIA TIPULIFORMIS). 



The upper figure is the jpoth ; the cross lines below indicate its natural 

 size; at the bottom is a shoot >%'ith the larva iiijeide. 



gained its popular name of " Clearwing." Towards the 

 end of June and the first w^eeks of July the female moth 

 deposits her eggs singly upon the stems and in close 

 proximity to the buds. In a few days the tiny larv?e 

 hatch out, and at once proceed to gnaw their way down 

 through the bud into the centre of the stem. Here they 

 excavate a considerable gallery, feeding on the pith 



