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spoiled, but are found principally on shoots growing as suckers from 

 old stem. (See figs. 333 and 334.) 



Larva yellow-orange colour, 2 mm. long. Head long, thin, and 

 pointed, footless. Has habit of anchoring anal end, raising head, and 

 making a motion or two in the air, then placing head to tail end, thus 

 making body a sort of loop, and then giving a high and clear leap oflf 

 the table to a distance of two or three inches. Mr Theobald savs : 



Fig. 333. — Leaf of lime-tree injured bii Cecidoniyia 

 tiliam volens. A normal leaf is placed behind 

 the injured leaf for identification. 



g. 334. — Shoots of lime-tree injured I 

 Cecidomyia tiliam volens. 



" I have found this very harmful on clipped and trimmed limes used 

 as 'blinds' in suburban rardens." 



DiPLOSis (Clinodiplosis) botularle, Wtz. 



This species is shown by the photograph (fig. 335). The larvae 

 live in a sort of pea-pod-shaped recess formed by rolling the leaf 

 inwards, and stimulating the growth of the leaf in thickness. The 

 larvse secrete a liquid and, as it were, half swim in it. They are 

 white with a central streak of green in the body. It is said they fall 

 to the earth, pupate, and appear as flics in the following May. I 

 found tliem very common at Bellingham, in jSTorthumberland, about 



