15 



to the tip. Its colour was pale greenish, with the anterior segments hairy, with stiffish look- 

 ing yellowish hairs of varying lengths; along the back was a depressed line of a green colour 

 margined on each side with a whitish ridge, and on each segment along these ridges from the 

 fifth to the twelfth inclusive, was a small whitish tubercle, from which arose a small spreading 

 cluster of stiff-looking whitish hairs. On the 20th of June this chrysalis was observed to be 

 growing darker, and on the 22nd the moth appeared. 



The moth is a very beautiful and delicate creature, measuring when its wino-s are ex- 

 panded, a little over half an inch. The fore wings are of a deep brownish copper colour with 

 a metallic lustre, with a few dots of silvery white. They are cleft down the middle about half 

 their depth, the division as well as the outer edge being fringed. The hind wings, which are 

 similar in colour to the fore wings, are divided into three portions, the hind one being almost 

 linear, and all deeply fringed. The antennae are annulatedwith silvery white, the legs and body 

 are also spotted with the same. 



Should this insect ever appear in sufficient numbers to require a remedy, hellebore would 

 probably prove efficient. 



11. The Flea Beetle {Haltica [Crepidoderd] Cucumerls, Harris). 



The insects comprising the family to which this flea beetle belongs although they are 

 most of them small, are on no account to be despised. The celebrated turnip fly or 

 more properly turnip beetle which lays waste the turnip fields in Europe, is one of them, and 

 the species we have now under consideration, as well as one or two others, are very destructive 

 to the turnip in this country, devouring the seed leaves of the plant as soon as they appear 

 above ground. But they do not confine their attacks to the turnip ; they injure the young 

 cabbage, the potato, and occasionally the raspberry. We found them during the past season 

 abundant on our raspberry bushes early in June, actively hopping about from leaf to leaf like 

 fleas, and eating very small holes in the leaves of the plants ; they did not however do any 

 very considerable damage. Harris says, " The flea beetles conceal themselves during the win- 

 ter in dry places under stones, in tufts of withered grass and moss, and in chinks of walls. 

 They lay their eggs in the spring upon the leaves of the plants on which they feed. The lar- 

 vae or young of the smaller kinds burrow into the leaves, and eat the soft pulpy substance 

 under the skin, forming therein little winding passages, in which they finally complete their 

 transformations. Hence the plants suffer as much from the depredations of the larvse as from 

 those of the beetles, a fact that has too often been overlooked. The larvae of the larger kinds 

 are said to live exposed upon the surface of the leaves which they devour, till they have come 

 to their growth, when they are changed to pupae, and soon afterwards to beetles. The mining 

 larvae, the only kinds which are known to me from personal examination, are little slender 

 grubs, tapering towards each end, and provided with six legs. They arrive at maturity, turn 

 to pupae, and then to beetles in a few weeks. Hence there is a constant succession of these in- 

 sects in their various stages throughout the summer." 



Powdered hellebore has been recommended as a remedy for this beetle, as well as Paris 

 •green mixed with flour in the proportion of one part of the green to 15 or 20 of flour. The 

 latter we think would be likely to prove most effective. 



AFFECTING THE FKUIT. 

 12. The Raspberry Geometer, (Aplodes ruhivom, Riley.) 



The larva of this pretty geometric moth feeds principally on the fruit of the raspberry. 

 It was first described by Mr. Riley in his first Report "On the Noxious Insects of Missouri," 

 where he described the larva and chrysalis as well as the perfect insect. Subsequently the 

 same insect was described by Mrs, Mary Treat, of Vineland, N. J., and from these two pub- 

 lished accounts most of the following is condensed. 



As already stated these larvae feed chiefly on the fruit of the raspberry, although Mrs. 

 Treat says they occasionally feed on the leaves as well. 



