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LEPIDOPTERA (MOTHS). 



of currants are attacked, but especially the black varieties. 

 The moths appear on the wing chiefly during the early hours 

 of the morning, when they may be seen hovering over the 

 currant-bushes. 



Remedies. — One can easily detect a hole in the bud, which is 

 about the eighth to the sixth of an inch across, where the larva 

 has entered. By pruning the infested shoots back until no 

 signs of a tunnel are left, and by burning the prunings, this 

 somewhat local pest would soon be cleared out of an infested 

 garden or plantation. 



The Garden Sivift-vioth (HejAalus hqmlinus), &c. 



The family Hepialidse or Swift-moths includes two injurious 

 species — namely, the Garden Swift {H. lujmlinus) (fig. 99) and 



Fig. 99. — Garden Swift-mi>th (Hcpialu^ lupulinits), pupa .and larv.i. 

 tf. Enlarged segment of larva. 



the Ghost-moth (H. humuli) (fig. 100). The former is very 

 destructive in its larval stage to garden produce, and the 

 latter to grass and hops. The larvse of the Hepialida? 

 live underground upon the roots of plants, but sometimes 

 they burrow into the root itself and up into the crown 

 of the plant. They are dirty-white in colour, and have 

 large brown heads and scattered bristle-like hairs over the 

 body. The garden swift - moth lays her eggs during the 



