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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CURRANT. LEAVES. 
Eastern Pennsylvania this same insect has this year totally con¬ 
sumed the currant leaves in several gardens. A letter from 
Lorenzo Rouse of Paris Hill, Oneida county, enclosing some of 
these worms in a vial of spirits and soliciting information respecting 
them, states that they were first noticed in that vicinity three years 
ago, and that they have continued to increase since that time, 
stripping the leaves from the gooseberries first and then from the cur- 
rancs. Our wild gooseberry (Ribes Cynunhati) was probably the 
original habitat of this insect, for I have noticed the moth around 
that bush, growing in the angles of fences, in years when none 
were observed in gardens; and perhaps one of these bushes set in 
an infested garden would allure most of these insects to it and 
render their destruction more easy than when they are scattered. 
Where these insects once establish themselves they there remain. 
Tlie same gardens in my neighborhood which were most severely 
ravaged by them ten and twelve years ago are the ones in which 
they have been most numerous the present year, notwithstanding 
that in some of the intervening years these gardens have appeared 
to be nearly or quite free from them. 
Mr. Rouse states that he has applied lime, ashes, soot, snuff, 
tobacco water and whale oil soap suds to his bushes, but all to no 
purpose. Shaking the bushes and picking the worms off' by hand 
and destroying them is probably the only effectual mode of exter¬ 
minating them, as I have heretofore said. Choice varieties of the 
gooseberry and currant may be securely protected by wholly enclos¬ 
ing each bush in netting made of the cheap fabric used for musketo 
bars, or some similar material, every worm upon these bushes 
being previously dislodged. 
142 . Pjiogne butterfly, Vanessa (Grapta) Progne, Fab. (Lepidoptera. 
Nymphalidae.) 
Eating the leaves the latter part of June, a gray worm 1.25 
long with a white head and branching white prickles, their points 
black; the pupa hanging with its head downwards from the under 
side of a limb about twelve days and the fore part of July giving 
out a butterfly with scalloped wings, the hind pair black shaded 
into tawny yellow at their base where is two black dots, their 
under sides with a central silvery straight mark bent to an obtuse 
angle somewhat resembling the letter L. Width about 2.00. 
