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9. The Oblique-Banded Leaf -Roller. {Lozotoenia rosaceana, Harris). 



This insect hasalready been referred to in previous Reports, in that of Mr. Reed, " On In- 

 sects Injurious to the Phim, 1870," and in that of my own, "On insects Injurious to the Currant 

 and G-ooseberry," but since it is equally destructive to the raspberry we call attention to it 

 here once more. It belongs to a family of moths called leaf rollers, from the fact that their 

 larvae have the habit of rolling up the leaves or portions of them, and thus constructing a rude 

 case in which they live and by means of which they are partially protected from birds and other 

 enemies. 



The caterpillar is about three quarters of an inch long, of a yellowish green colour, with a 

 pale brown head, and a few fine whitish hairs scattered over the surface of its body, arising 

 from very small slightly elevated shining tubercles or dots, so small as to be scarcely visible 

 Aviihout a magnifying lens. After becoming full grown it changes to a dark brown chrysalis, 

 ^usually within the case in which it feeds, and works its way partly out before the moth escapes. 



In the annexed figure 8 the caterpillar is shown a little 

 enlarged, and the brown chrysalis from which the moth has 

 escaped is placed underneath. 



The moth see figure 9 measures when its wings are spread 

 from three quarters of an inch to an inch^ its fore wings 

 are of a light cinnamon Fia. 9. 



brown colour, crossed by 

 bands and linesof a darker 

 shade. The hind wings 

 are pale yellow. The fore- 

 wings are very much arch- 

 ed on their outer edge, and are curved at the tip into a sort 

 of hook or short tail 



Whenever these clusters of curled and twisted leaves are found, they should be picked and 

 crushed without delay. 



Fig. 8. 



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10. The Raspberry Plume Moth, {Pterophoi-us.- 



This insect has not in any instance nor is it ever likely to be very numerous or trouble 

 gome ; still it is an interesting creature and claims some attention. We first observed the 

 larvae feeding on Raspberry during the summer of 1872, and found them again during the 

 past season. When first met with on the third of June the larva was a tiny thing, two-tenths 

 of an inch long with a pale brown head sprinkled with hairs of the same colour and with two 

 small blackish dots on each side. The body was of a pale greenish white, with transverse 

 rows of shining tubercles from each of which there arose from two to six fleshy-looking spread- 

 ing hairs. On the second segL.ent these hairs were placed singly, a front row overhanging 

 the head with others behind them. Down the back was a row of depressed dots, looking 

 almost like punctures through the opaque skin, and throuo;h which the movements of the in- 

 ternal organs could be seen. The terminal segment was green, edged with dark brown behind. 



This larva attained its full growth about the tenth of June, when it measured about 3J- 

 tenths of an inch in length ; the following description was then taken : — Head small, pale 

 green, with a faint brownish tinge, semi-transparent, with a few very fine short hairs, and a 

 faint brown dot on each side ; body pale yellowish green, streaked with pale yellow ; termi- 

 nal segment green, its sides a little deeper in colour than the upper portion ; feet and pro- 

 legs greenish, semi-transparent, the prolegs very slender and rather long. 



One of these became a chrysalis on the 11th of June, and immediately before this change 

 took place the larva spun a loose web of silk over the surface of a portion of the glass in which 

 it was confined. This'web covered more space than the chrysalis did, and in it the hinder seg- 

 ment of the chrysalis was firmly secured, and besides this it seemed to be attached along its 

 entire length. The chrysalis was less than three- tenths of an inch in length, tapering behind 

 to a point, and enlarging continuously towards the front, where near the end it sloped abruptly 



