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spun the leaves up. The caterpillars may be destroyed 

 in the spring by hand-picking and dusting the leaves 

 with quicklime, soot, &c., when the dew is on them, so 

 as the powder sticks. In the winter, the ground under 

 the bushes should be dressed with gas lime. 



The V Moth {Halia wama/ricb). The looper cater- 

 pillar of this moth is pale green with black spots, and 

 four wavy yellowish-white lines on the back, and a 

 yellow line over the spiracles. It is foimd on currant 

 and gooseberry bushes in May, and not unfrequently 

 strips these of their leaves. The moth is a little over 

 an inch across the wings, pale grey with a faint violet 

 tinge ; the fore wings have a black V-like mark near 

 the centre. It is found in July. The same remedies 

 may be employed as for the magpie moth. 



The Winter Moth (Cheimatdbia brumata) is perhaps 

 the best known and most injurious of our insect pssts. 

 The male moth measures a little over an inch across 

 the fore wings, which are greyish-brown, with several 

 indistinct, wavy, darker transverse lines ; the hind 

 wings are greyish-white. The female is incapable of 

 flight, having only very short rudimentary wiugs, which 

 are dusky-grey, with two transverse lines on the fore, 

 and one on the hind wiugs. Her legs are long, and 

 her abdomen very large, giting her the appearance of a 

 spider. Her supply of eggs runs up to about 250. 

 She appears about the end of October, and creeps up 

 the stems of the trees to lay her eggs on the buds or 

 twigs, and particularly in the crevices of the bark. 



