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■nishing a guide to a proper understanding of this 

 subject, I append — 



A Descriptive List of Insects which feed on 

 Rose. 



coleoptera or beetles. 



Cetouia aurata. — A large brassy-green beetle, which 

 appears through the summer and eats the petals. 



Phyllopertha hortkola. — A small chafer, green and 

 brown ; eats the petals. 



DIPTERA. 



Cecidomyia rosarum. — A small midge : the larvce 

 of which cause the leaflets to become thick and fleshy 

 £alls. 



HYMENOPTERA- 

 S.A.WFLIES. 



Bknnocampa pusilla. — Larvae, June and July ; green, 

 with brown head, causing the leaves of Rosa canina 

 to curl, inside of which the grub lives : fly, May and 

 June ; black ; legs partly yellow. 



Cladius padi. — A small green larva, darker on the 

 back, and yellow head ; eats holes in the leaves of 

 various roses and other trees ; fly, black ; legs whitish, 

 •wings smoky. Broods all summer. 



C. pectinicornis. — Larva in May and August ; flat 

 green, with hairy tubercules : feeds on the under side 

 of leaves of various roses ; fly in April and July ; 

 shining black, with grey hairs and yellow joints and 

 feet. 



Emphytus cindus. — Larva, July to October ; green, 

 with brown head ; feeds on the edges of leaves of 

 various roses, curling its tail : fly, June ; shining black ; 

 legs partly white ; wings clear ; the female with a white 

 band on the body. 



E. melanarius. — Larva little known : fly, shining 

 black ; thighs red, black at base ; rare. 



E. rufocinctiis. — Larva, Aug. and Sept. ; green, 

 sides white, head pale orange : fly, black ; body long, 

 with red bands ; thighs black, white at base. 



Eriocampa roses. — Larva, June ; slug-shaped ; green- 

 ish yellow with brown head ; eats the upper skin of the 

 leaf : fly, May ; black ; legs partly white ; wings 

 smoky, darkest at base. 



Hylotoma roses. — Larva, July and Sept. ; greenish 

 with yellow and black spots and brown head, and 

 :feeds on the edges of the leaf; fly, June and August ; 

 has the horns of three joints only ; head and thorax 

 black ; body and legs yellow. 



Lyda inanita. — Larva, yellow-green ; red and black 

 spots, living in a tube made of fragments of leaves : 

 fly, black, and yellow legs, and line on body ; horns 

 red, yellow at base. 



Fcecilosoma candidatum. — Larva in May and June ; 

 whitish ; bores into the pith : fly, black ; white and 

 yellowish spots ; rare. The presence may be known 

 hy the drooping state of the foliage. 



Rhodites eglantericE. — Round pea-like galls on leaves 

 of R. canina and sweet-brier. 



R. rosarium. — Similar gall to last, but with spines. 



R. rosa. — The ordinary moss-gall, common on stems 

 of wild rose. 



R. spinostssima. — Red, irregular galls on leaves 

 and shoots of Rosa spinosissima. 



S. MOSLEY. 



Beaumont Park Museum, Huddersfield. 

 (To be continued.) 



ASTRONOMY. 

 By John Browning, F.R.A.S. 



THE death is announced of RL Tempel, who is 

 well known as the discoverer of many planets 

 and comets. M. Tempel succeeded Donati in 1873 

 as director of the new observatory at Florence. 

 Lusatia was the birthplace of Tempel in 1821. He 

 first gave his attention to astronomy at Venice in 

 1859, and in that year he discovered a comet on the 

 2nd of April. At Marseilles, where he removed in 

 i860, he discovered five small planets and several 

 comets ; of these comets two were found to be of 

 short period. M. Tempel being expelled as a German 

 from France in 1870, went to Milan to the Brera 

 Observatory, under Schiaparelli, and at this obser- 

 vatory he discovered some more comets, one of which 

 was of very short period, making a complete revolu- 

 tion round the sun in five years. 



The Rev. T. E. Espin states that the spectra of 

 R. Leonis and R. Hydrse were observed on the 25th 

 of February to contain bright lines, and that this 



Rising, Southing, and Setting of tite Prituipal PlaiiOs 



in May. 



