WHITE WOOLLY CURRANT SCALE. 
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The egg-like bodies in the 
wool, when examined at this date 
(July 2), proved to have hatched, 
and these orange-coloured larvte 
were dispersing themselves in vast 
numbers in the box in which the 
spray of infested Currant sent me 
by Mr. Mosley was secured. 
These very active young scale- 
insects (fig. 2) were whitish or 
orange in colour, of a flattened 
oval shape, broadest near the 
head, deeply cleft at the caudal 
extremity, with a long hair or 
filament on each side of the cleft, 
that is, one long filament placed 
on each lobe caused by the cleft, 
and in the centre of the cleft a 
long, cylindrical process. The 
body somewhat raised along the 
centre, with slightly indicated 
corrugations along it, and side 
ridges from it, and the surface 
slightly sprinkled with white or 
woolly morsels. Eyes dark or 
black. One of the special cha¬ 
racteristics by which this species 
is known is the number and 
length of the hairs on the an¬ 
tennae, but in the size figured I 
have only been able to indicate 
that hairs are present. 
A few days after Mr. Mosley 
had forwarded me the specimens 
from Wakefield, his attention was 
drawn to the presence of the 
Scale to a large extent, and to 
all appearance doing definite in¬ 
jury to the Currant-bushes in a 
garden adjoining his own at 
Huddersfield, of which he wrote 
me as follows :—“ There is a row 
of about forty good-sized bushes 
against a wall, all of which are 
Currant-branch infested by White 
Woolly Scale, 
