8S Insect Pests. 



being the lird-cherrv (Prinu>s r'd,'i) and euonymus. It has 

 l.een sent to me on more than one occasion from cultivated cherries 

 m K«it and also from appln. AVhitehead ( 3 ) says it is the species 

 most usiiallv met with in the north of England. K r"ddh' often 

 does much harm to hawthorn he.lges, frer^uently r^uite detoliatmg 

 them. In Italv it attacks the plum, heing known as " tignola del 

 pruno ■■ ; in France, cherrv, plum and grapes. It also attacks the 

 cherry in England. 



The apple pest {H. „i"Iine!li') was most troublesome in ISG-j, 

 1877 and ISSO. Whole orchards were entirely devastated in the 

 two first-named years, the foliage being as Viare as in midwinter. 

 Such an attack not only ruins the year's crop, but so harms the trees 

 that tliey do not bear crops for some subsequent seasons. 



LlFE-HlSTOEY AXn Haeits, 

 The life-historv seems to have been confused in describing this 



pest with that of K p'"!,Jhn2). The fact that the same species was 



thought to attack both haw- 

 thorn and apple probably is 

 the cause of this. 



Tlie apple .spiecies (1) is 

 smaller than that found ou 

 the hawthorn, measuring 

 aliout 17 mm. ; the head is 

 white and also the pialpii : 

 the tliorax is snowy-white 

 with black spots, as al~o 

 are the fore wing<, wiiicli 

 have about twenty >niall 

 black spots, the cilia a 

 similar colour to the wings ; 

 posterior wings grey, tlie 

 fringe uniformly grey, thus 

 diftering from If. jmJ'-^I'-'-. 

 in whic'.i the liinge of the 

 pijsterior wings i-^ piale grey 

 or wliite with grey apex. 

 It is famd widely over 



England, and Carpenter lecoid-- it from Ireland. 



The moth appears in .luh' and August. The earliest record I luwe of 



it is the 4th of July and tlie latent the 10th of August. AVhitehead (3) 



say- ■' tliey appear toward- the end i.>;' June." I have never cibserved 



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