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precisely tlie colour of a boiled shrimp ; when older it is yellow, with 
patches or a stripe of dark red along the back, and black spots on the 
ring behind the head. 
Many of the caterpillars may he destroyed by looking for the 
entrance of their burrows near the base of the infested trees, and then 
driving a strong wire up the tunnel. If the end comes back with 
white matter on it, it shows that the caterpillar has been reached. I 
have also seen it answer very well to use a finer wire, with the point 
turned back so as to form a hook, to draw the caterpillar out with. 
A surprising number may be taken out this way. 
Where the galleries are so twisted that the wire is of no service, 
the plans (mentioned in previous Reports) are useful of syringing 
paraffin or tobacco-water up the hole, or blowing in poisonous fumes. 
The application of a bit of moist clay will prevent either the fluid or 
smoke escaping. 
Plastering round the base of the trunk of any tree which it is 
wished to protect with some mixture which will prevent the Moths 
laying their eggs in crevices of the bark also is a good plan. 
For this purpose anything that will quite prevent the Moths getting 
at the bark will serve. A mixture of clay and cow-dung, if put on so 
as to adhere and form a reliably thick coat, will answer, or clay 
moistened with a thick solution of soft soap would do better still. 
Davidson’s composition has not been mentioned for the purpose, but 
this has been found to act so well in sticking fast the Apple-tree 
Winter Moths (see p. 5) that it would probably fasten any eggs of the 
Goat Moth which might be laid so securely as to prevent hatching. 
This dressing should be done during the latter part of June, and 
occasionally repeated, as the Moth comes out in June or July. But 
where a tree is known to be badly infested it is the best policy to fell 
it, and split up the lower part of the trunk and destroy the cater¬ 
pillars; otherwise it will both attract more attack and serve as a 
centre to spread it. 
RASPBERRY. 
Raspberry Beetle. Bytums tomentosus. 
On May 28tli I received a communication from Mr. H. Wood, of 
Crockenhill, St. Mary Cray, Kent, regarding a small brown Beetle, 
) which proved to be the “ Raspberry Beetle,” Bytums tomentosus, which 
was causing fearful havoc and entirely devouring the Raspberries. 
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