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which are whitish on the under side. Beneath, the wings are 

 gray fawn color, whitish on the apex, along the inner edge of 

 the fore wings, and along the outer edge of the hind wings. 



Tlie Currant Halia. — For several years I have noticed the 

 Halia ivavaria Goedaet flying in our fields and gardens, and at 

 length succeeded in raising it from the caterpillar found on the 

 currant. It is a common European moth, and is likely to prove 

 destructive to the currant in this country. I neglected to de- 

 scribe the caterpillar, which is a span worm, like the common 

 currant caterpillar in its general form, and translate from 

 Guenee's work on moths the following description of it : — 



" Caterpillar quite short, cylindrical, head globular, a little 

 flattened, of a pale green, with the back occupied by four waved 

 lines and marbled with yellowish white. The line near the stig- 

 mata is of a lively yellow, and widens in the middle of each 

 ring. From all the warts arise black hairs, the ventral warts 

 being well marked. The stigmata are black, and liable to be 

 confounded with the warts. Head green, punctured with black. 

 It lives, in May and June, on the Ribes grossularia^ the leaves of 

 which it destroys. The chrysalis lives in the earth." 



The moth has triangular fore wings, with the apex rather ob- 

 tuse, and the outer edge entire, not being hollowed out just 

 below the apex, as in the allied genus Macaria. Along the cos- 

 tal, or front edge of the wing are four large brown spots, the 

 second one forming a line crossing the wing, in the middle of 

 which it is distinctly angulated ; near the apex is a squarish 

 patch ; the fore wings are pale ash, a little darker along the 

 outer edge, while the hind wings are paler, with the outer edge 

 rounded. It expands a little over an inch and a quarter. 



INJURING THE RASPBERRY. 



The Byturus unicolor Say, (PI. 1, fig. 12, enlarged,) is a lit- 

 tle sub cylindrical beetle about .15 of an inch long, and resem- 

 bles the death-tick, or Anobium, a pale, reddish-brown beetle 

 which is found in our houses. The whole body and limbs are 

 reddish-brown, and covered with dense, rather long, pale, tawny 

 hairs. The surface is thickly punctured. The scutellum is 

 paler than the rest of the body and very conspicuous. The 

 eyes are black, and the margin of the thorax is rather broad 

 and much depressed, the disc being high and convex. It is 



