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can be grasiDed in the hand and thoroughly squeezed, this will 

 get rid of many very surely and easily. 



I have found it answer very well, where there was a good 

 water supply laid on, to ivash the infested tree well down with 

 a strong current of water sent through a hose. From the 

 clinging nature of the web the operation took some time to 

 carry out completely, but I have myself thus cleared and 

 cleaned a tree very satisfactorily. 



The various washings recommended for remedy of Lackey 

 Moth attack would be as serviceable for that of the Small 

 Ermines, and in both cases good drenchings of soft-soap, 

 mixed as thickly as it could be applied (with a little paraffin 

 added), well syringed at each web-nest, would have a very 

 good effect. 



It has been observed that the whole brood of moths usually 

 hatch from the chrysalis at the same time, when their light 

 colour makes them easily seen, and they are sluggish by day ; 

 it has therefore been found useful to spread a sheet under the 

 trees, and by beating or shaking the houghs make the moths 

 fall into the sheet, and destroy them. 



Garden Chafer; Rose Beetle. 



Phyllopertlia horticola, Linn. ; Anisoplia horticola, Curtis. 



Phyllopeetha horticola. — Beetle, natural size (walking), magnified (flying) ; 

 grub, also magnified. 



The "Garden" or "Eose" Chafer has long been remark- 

 able for appearing in great numbers occasionally, and doing 

 much mischief in beetle state to tree leafage, and also, when 

 in maggot condition, by feeding at the roots of grass, and so 

 far back as 1844 John Curtis gave dates of some of their 

 great appearances.* The earliest noted was in 1814, " in 

 immense numbers," near Swansea. In 1832 Apple and 



* See ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' vol. iv. p. 700 ; Curtis, ' Farm Insects,' 

 pp. 219-222, and p. 509 ; also Curtis, ' Brit. Ent.,' fol. 526. 



