are made to tind a suitable place for the egg, and the ovipositor 

 sweeps round and round many times before the right spot is hit 

 upon. It seems that the egg, whicli is white and rather narrow, 

 is fastened to the receptacle with a viscous fluid. 



In about seven days the larva is hatched. It is yellowish brown 

 at tirst, with a brown head, and not quite a quarter of an inch 

 long. As it grows it gets darker. The hinder extremity, 

 or tail end, is rather narrower than the head end, and is 

 furnished with a pair of crooked spines on the upper part, and 

 a proleg underneath to help progression. There are three 

 pairs of short feet, not much more important than sucker feet. 

 It lives from 14 to 17 days within the white receptacle, upon 

 which it feeds. When this is reduced to a pulp, and is becoming 

 black and decaying, the larva leaves it, and getting under 

 the loose skin of the raspberry canes or in crannies in the 

 supports, if there are any, or other hiding places, changes to a 

 pupa, assuming a slight cocoon, in which state it remains 

 until the following spring. It is probable that pupation also 

 takes place on the canes close to the ground, and in the stocks, 

 and ev en in the ground. 



METHODS or PREVENTION AND REMEDIES. 



It is clearly impossible that applications to the canes to make 

 the beetle's food distasteful could be of any efficiency. 



Some beetles might be caught by holding tarred hoards under 

 infested canes, which should be violently shaken, but, as noted 

 above, they try to hide themselves, and when in the flowers they 

 could not easily be dislodged. 



All the old canes should be cut Jiway, close down to the stock, 

 and all the wood and rubbish burnt. Young canes, that is those 

 of the year's growth, would not have any loose skin under which 

 the larvae could pupate. 



The ground round the stocks should be dug deeply, and 

 rubbish cleared away from the stocks, and either dug well in or 

 burnt. 



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