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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
GOOSEBERRY. LEAVES. 
throughout the year. Even in winter on turning over an old log 
one of these pretty little insects will sometimes leap into view 
from among the surrounding dead leaves. It is subject to con¬ 
siderable variations, the stripes being sometimes of a pale yellow 
color and one or another of them wanting Commonly three 
black or dusky dots may be seen on the wing covers in an oblique 
row forward of the membranous tips. 
The Companion leaf-hopper of the raspberry, the Three-banded 
leaf-hopper 105, and several other species of this group will also 
be met with upon currant bushes. 
11. THE GOOSEBERRY .—Ribes Grossularia. 
Most of the insects which are found upon the currant are 
equally common upon the gooseberry, though the stalks of this 
shrub are so w r ell defended by prickles that they are rarely if 
ever invaded by those borers which are so pernicious to the cur¬ 
rant. In addition to the insects which are named under the cur¬ 
rant, the following have been observed upon the gooseberry only. 
147 . Gooseberry bark-louse, Lecanium Cynosbati, new species. (Ilomop- 
tera. Coccidse.) 
On the stalks of the wild gooseberry ( R. Cynosba/i ), a hemis¬ 
pheric, smooth, shining resin-brown scale, commonly freckled 
with dull yellow dots and with a dull yellow stripe along its 
middle. Length about 0.15. This is evidently a different specie* 
from that which we have found upon the currant. 
148 . Mealy Flata, Pceciloptera pruinosa, Say. (Homoptera. Fulgorida).) 
In July and August, puncturing and sucking the juices of the 
leaves and the young succulent shoots, a four-winged fly which 
is strongly compressed and wedge-shaped, its height almost double 
its width, of a dusky bluish color covered with white meal-like 
powder, its legs straw-yellow, and its wing-covers showing some 
faint white dots and near their base three or four dusky ones. 
Length about 0.30. 
Ten years ago a gooseberry and pie-rhubarb growing contiguous 
to each other in the yard in rear of the old State Hall in Albany 
