and CEConomy cannot fail to interest every lover of Nature, who 

 veil! be much gratified by the perusal of papers in the third, 

 fourth and fifth volumes of the Linnean Transactions, where 

 full accounts are given of the Tipula Tritici ; the following 

 remarks relating to the same insect we have copied from the 

 Introduction to Entomology. 



" When the wheat blossoms, another marauder, to which 

 Mr. Marsham first called the attention of the public, takes its 

 turn to make an attack upon it, under the form of an orange- 

 coloured gnat, which, introducing its long retractile ovipositor 

 into the centre of the corolla, there deposits its eggs. These 

 being hatched, the larvae, perhaps by eating the pollen, pre- 

 vent the impregnation of the grain, and so in some seasons 

 destroy the twentieth part of the crop." Mr. Kirby has 

 further observed that the perfect insects fly from seven to nine 

 in the evening all June, and their larvae were attacked by three 

 species of Ichneumon, that deposited their eggs in them. 

 Another species, T. pennicornis, is the insect that impregnates 

 the flowers of Aristolochia clematis, an amusing account of 

 which will be found in the first volume of the Introduction to 

 Entomology, p. 289. 



Meigen has described twenty-two species, most of which are 

 probably inhabitants of this country ; but his descriptions are 

 too slight to identify them to our satisfaction. The following, 

 however, appear to be natives of this country. 



1. C. lutea Lat. — May, June, August and September. 



2. Tritici Kirby Einn. Trans, v. 5. p. 106. tab. ^.fg. 1 — 3. 



3. verna 'Nob. — The end of April. 



4. nigra Meig. v. 1. tab. 3.f. 11. 



5. lateralis Meig. 1. 96. 5. 



6. Y^alustris Lijin. P Faun. Succ. 1775. 



7. nigricollis Meig. 1. 97. 8. 



8. flava Meig. 1. 99. 17. 



Independent of the early period of the year at which our 

 insect (C verna) was taken, the colour of its wings, which are 

 cinereous, will separate it from C. Tritici, of which Mr. Kirby 

 says in his description, ^'^Alislacteo-iricoloribus." The females 

 appear to be the most abundant, and we have not yet 3een a 

 male of our species ; when the female figured was alive, its 

 antennae were curved upward, which gave it the character of 

 an Ichneumon, and the tube or ovipositor was not exserted till 

 it was killed. 



The plant is Galeobdolon lufeim (Yellow Archangel). 



