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often taken into the mouth unnoticed until the nauseous flavour reveals its 

 presence. In figure 1 1, we have a magnified outline of this insect, with one 

 of the natural size along side of it. Its colour is black, with a white stripe 

 each side. It is furnished with a pointed beak or sucker which it thrusts 

 through the skin of the fruit and thus lives on the juices which it extracts. 

 It affects the blackberry and sometimes the strawberry as well as the 

 raspberry although very seldom to the same extent. Mr. Riley in his 

 second Report refers at some length to this insect, where he says, " it abounds also in certain 

 weeds, among which may be mentioned the Red Root or New Jersey Tea Plant [Ceanothus 

 Americanus) and neck weed or Purslane Speedwell {Veronica peregrina). In the month of 

 June under these two last named plants, they may be found in countless numbers of all sizes 

 and ages, from the small light brown, wingless, newly hatched individuals, to the full fledged 

 jet black ones. In fact they breed on these weeds, and there is no more effectual method of 

 checking their increase and thus preventing their injuries to our cultivated fruits, than by 

 sprinkling these weeds, and the ground underneath them, with a good strong solution of cresy- 

 lic soap." 



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