Reports to the Board of A griculture. 141 
Spots on Black Currant Buds, etc. 
Black currant cuttings have frequently been sent to the Board 
and to the Museum and myself, with notes asking if the normal 
glands in the buds were eggs or galls of the mite of the Black 
Currant. These yellow bodies are normal plant glands. The 
following communications have been sent to the Board : — 
/. — Supposed Aphis Eggs on Black Currant twigs. 
The piece of currant twig sent by your correspondent, of the 
Betreat, York, has no insect eggs upon it. 
The yellow spots to which he refers are normal plant glands. 
They occur on all black currants, but on some varieties more so than 
on others. 
The eggs of the currant Aphides are longer and spindle-shaped, 
with a hard dark shell. 
II- — Spots on Black Currant Leaves. 
The leaves of the black currant sent by a correspondent from 
Sundridge, Kent, and several others did not show any traces of the 
Black Currant Mite ( Eriophyes ribis). They are certainly not galls 
of the Big-bud Mite. 
The spots on the leaves referred to are glands on the leaf, of 
normal appearance. The only gall formed by this pest is the 
swollen bud. 
HI- Notification to the Board of Agriculture. 
As currant leaves are frequently being sent with enquiries as to 
whethei the yellow spots on them are eggs of Aphis , or galls or eggs 
of Pliytoptidx , it might be well to call attention to these structures in 
the “ Journal.” 
These glands, which secrete a volatile pungent oily material, are 
well-known normal plant glands.* 
Red Spiders. 
The following notes have been sent regarding Bed Spiders 
The species ot Bed Spiders found on hops lias not been 
... f u . o( T was . prepared by the Board and issued in the Journal in 
with this information {vide vol. x., no. 1, p. 85, June, 1903). 
accordance 
