INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE BLACK CURRANT. 



ATTAOKINa THE LEAVES. 



No. 216. — The Currant Endropia. 



Endropia armataria (Herr. Sch.). 



About the middle of July there will sometimes be found 

 on black-currant bushes small, nearly black, geometric cat- 

 erpillars, dotted and marked with pale yellow, and with a 

 series of crescent-shaped whitish spots down the back, and a 

 row of raised dark-brown dots along each side, those on the 

 hinder segments tipped with yellow, while on the last segment 

 there is a fleshy hump or prominence composed of two round 

 tubercles. When full grown, this larva is about three-quarters 

 of an inch long, when it constructs a slight web, interweaving 

 portions of dead leaves or other rubbish, and within this 

 changes to a brown chrysalis, in which condition it remains 

 throughout the winter, producing the perfect insect the fol- 

 lowing June, 



The moth is represented in Fig. 365, about the natural 

 size. Its wings are yellowish brown shaded with purple, es- 

 pecially on the hind wings, and with 

 Pig. ^05. ^^^ streaks and dots of a deeper shade of 



brown. The under surface is deep 

 yellow, dotted and streaked with red- 

 dish brown. 



This insect is by no means common, 



and hence is never likely to prove 



generally injurious to currant-bushes. Although it prefers 



the black currant, it feeds also on the leaves of the red 



currant. 

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