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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CURRANT. STALKS. 
ed to this genus ol plants but feeds also upon several other small 
shrubs growing in our fields and forests, the stalks of which have 
a texture similar to that of the currant. I infer this from the first 
pair of these insects which I met with, twenty-five years ago. , 
occurring upon the small-flowered honeysuckle (Lonicera parvi- 
fiora ) near which no currant bushes were growing. 
The larva of this insect is nearly or quite 0.30 long and about 0.07 in 
diameter, cylindrical and divided into thirteen segments by deep wide trans¬ 
verse constrictions, the last segment being narrower and more oi less leti acted 
into the one which precedes it. The head is scarcely half as broad as the body, 
short and wide, flattened, dark chestnut brown with the base whitish and r\ ith 
short stout triangular black jaws. The second segment or first ring is palo 
tawny yellow above on its anterior part, the rest of this ring and all the remain¬ 
ing segments being white, rarely straw yellow, shining, soft and flesh-like. It 
is wholly destitute of feet. To compensate for this deficiency the worm upon the 
back and beneath is furnished with a cluster of small round tubercles or elevated 
dots forming an oval spot upon the middle of each'segment, whereby it is aided 
no doubt in clinging to the walls of its burrow as it moves about therein. Ihe 
breathing pores form a row of cinnamon brown dots along each side. The body is 
slightly clothed with very fine short hairs, which on the last segment are moio 
numerous and rather longer. 
The BEETLE is 0.18 to 0.23 long, the thorax almost as wide as the wing 
covers and nearly as broad as it is long, with its sides convex. Ihe head and 
thorax are covered with small deep confluent punctures, those upon the u ing 
covers are much more coarse and are deep and confluent except on the tips 
where they become smaller and slightly separated. The wing covers have a 
broad round elevated spot or tubercle at their base, and a narrower hump upon 
the shoulder. Its color is black with the margins of the wing covers and tho¬ 
rax pale chestnut brown. The wing covers have a large milk-white spot 
beyond their middle, which is transverse, crescent-shaped with the convex side 
forward, the inner end slightly separated from the suture and the outer end 
often reaching to the outer margin; and forward of their middle arc two small 
spots which are sometimes buff yellow, sometimes ash-gray, the forwaid spot 
being a short oblique line placed nearer to the suture than to the outer margin, 
the other spot being a small dot which is often oblong, situated back ol the 
inner end of the first and nearly as far from it as from the suture. All these 
spots are formed by very short hairs or more properly scales, which are 
nppressed to the surface and in old individuals become rubbed so that the for¬ 
ward spots are more obscure or partially obliterated. The scutel is ash-giny 
from similar scales. The antennae are pale chestnut brown, commonly with a 
darker brown or blackish band on the thickened apex of each joint, and they 
arc thickly covered with short fine incumbent ash-gray hairs which in a pin 
ticular reflection of the light give a gray color to the basal portion of the long 
est joints. They are shorter than the body, thread-like, their first joint tine >- 
est, long and tapering to its base, their second joint short, but little lon„cr 
