Ontario Sessional Papers, 1871-72, . long rows upon the veins or ribs. In the accompanying figure, 27, a gooseberry leaf is represented, with the larger veins or ribs partiallycovered with these eggs. In vol. 2, p. 1-5, of theCanadian Entomologist, we published some obser-vations on this subject, which we cannot do betterthan reproduce here. While turning up the branches of some goose-berry bushes, about the middle of May, we observeda number of whitish eggs on some of the leaves, ar-ranged lengthwise in regular rows at short distancesapart on the principal veins or ribs of the leaf. Us
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1871-72, . long rows upon the veins or ribs. In the accompanying figure, 27, a gooseberry leaf is represented, with the larger veins or ribs partiallycovered with these eggs. In vol. 2, p. 1-5, of theCanadian Entomologist, we published some obser-vations on this subject, which we cannot do betterthan reproduce here. While turning up the branches of some goose-berry bushes, about the middle of May, we observeda number of whitish eggs on some of the leaves, ar-ranged lengthwise in regular rows at short distancesapart on the principal veins or ribs of the leaf. Usu-ally they were placed singly in the rows, but here andthere double. These were the eggs of the gooseberryor currant worm ; they were about one-twentieth of aninch long, four times as long as broad, rounded at eachend, and with a whitish glossy surface. On the branchthen examined there were three leaves with these eggson; two of them had their principal veins pretty wellcov3red. while the third had but a few on it, as if this8C8 Fig. 35 Victoria. Sessional Papers (Xo. 5). A. 1871-2 had been the work of a single insect who had exhausted her stock before the third leaf wascovered. Ou counting these we found there were 101 in all. Having just then caught oneof the parent flies, a female who was hovering about as if looking for a suitable place on whichto deposit her eggs, we squeezed some eggs out of her body, and comparing them with thoseon the leaf, found they were only about half the size, showing that the first must have grownconsiderably after being laid, and that they were probably nearly ready to hatch. In aboutthree houis afterwards we observed that several of the young larvae had come out of the eggs,and placing the leaf under a microscope, had the good fortune to see some of them egg consisted of a thin elastic membrane, sufficiently transparent to give a dim view ofthe enclosed larva. The black spot which is placed on each side of the head in this speci
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