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GOOSEBERRY. FRUIT. 
were thronged with this insect in the different stages of its growth. 
This is the northern-most point where it has yet been discovered. 
The preceding year the privet (Ligustrum vulgare) in gardens in 
the city of New-York was overrun with it, and a description of it 
was published in the New-York Farmer and Mechanic newspaper, 
of July 30, 1846, by Issacliar Cozzens, under the name Flu/a 
bigustium, he being unaware that it had previously been named 
by Mr. Say. Further south it is quite common on various shrubs. 
149. Gooseberry moth. (Lepidoptera. Traeid® ?) 
The fruit when about half grown perishing, its interior being 
ate out by a slender greenish worm about half an inch long with 
a dark colored nose, a dark band across the top of its neck, and 
the three forward pairs of feet of the same color, which forms a 
tube of silken threads from the cavity in the berry through a hole 
in its side to an adjacent leaf, through which it crawls out and in. 
This is too interesting and important a depredator upon the 
gooseberry to be passed unnoticed, although I have not yet 
obtained it in its perfect state, it having generally completed its 
work and left the bushes before its destructive operations were 
observed. I have sometimes seen bushes of the wild gooseberry 
with every berry withered and reduced to a mere dry hollow 
shell with a cobweb-like tube protruding from the orifice in one 
side. And the present summer a letter to the Country Gentle¬ 
man from E. Graves, jr. of Ashfield, Mass., states that for three 
years past, his “ Houghton’s seedling ” gooseberries have been a 
total failure, from this same worm, as I am assured by the account 
which he gives of it and the specimens accompanying his letter. 
150. Gooseberry midge, Cecidomyia Grossulariiz, Fitch. (Diptent. 
Tipulid®.) 
The berries turning red prematurely and becoming putrid, and 
having in them small bright yellow maggots of an oblong oval 
form and slightly divided into segments by fine impressed trans¬ 
verse lines; changing to pupse in the berries and the latter part 
of July giving out a small two-winged fly resembling a musketo, 
of a beeswax-yellow color, its wings hyaline and slightly smoky, 
and its antennae blackish and twelve jointed. Length 0.10. See 
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