affecting the Clover-crops and Pasture-lands. 53 



6 pectoral, 4 abdominal, and 2 anal feet. They are of a buff 

 colour, and striped, with the head and belly brown. They feed 

 on the purple clover, and also on a Verbascum (mullein), and 

 conceal themselves generally between the lower leaves of the 

 clover. They undergo their transformations in that situation in 

 an elongated white cocoon. The chrysalis is brown, powdered 

 with blue ; the apex is spined. They remain in this state 

 until the beginning of June, when the moths hatch : they are 

 particularly attached to chalky districts. 

 The otlier species alluded to is 



10. EUCLIDIA Ml {Linn.) : the Shipton Moth. 



It is griseous ; upper wings with a broad blackish band, mar- 

 gined with ochre, bi-lobed towards the interior margin, with a 

 round black dot towards the costa, and a large lunate one, edged 

 externally with ochre, beyond it : an ochreous stripe and a I'ow 

 of conical black spots towards the posterior margin ; under wings 

 black, with a large bright ochreous spot near the base, and two 

 waved bands divided by black veins, often forming spots : fringe 

 ochreous, spotted with black ; margins of abdominal segments 

 pale ; under-side orange, with black spots and angulated lines : 

 expanse of wings rather more than 1 inch. The caterpillars feed 

 on clover, lucern, yellow medick {3Iedica(/o fa/oa^a), and grasses, 

 and arrive at maturity the end of August. They are similar to 

 those of I^. glyphica, but are of a whitish lilac-colour, sometimes 

 inclining to ochre, and striped. They have 12 legs, and form a 

 loop in walking. Tliey must be tolerably abundant, as the moths 

 are very common and widely spread over England, Wales, and 

 Scotland : they are found in May and June. 



It appears that clover crops are not exempt from the inroads 

 of the curious little worms called Vibrio ; for it is stated in the 

 'Gardener's Chronicle' of the 20th of March, 1852, by Mr. 

 Murcott, of Leamington, that he had discovered in the interior 

 of red clover-seed some worms which he believed to be a Vibrio. 



Takes. 



Tares are Infested by multitudes of insects, the larva^ of beetles, 

 moths, and flies : amongst the latter is one which reduces the seed 

 crop to a great extent. In July the flower-heads are often dis- 

 tinctly distorted ; and on opening them numbers of maggots are 

 found concealed in and amongst the calyces or cups of the flowers, 

 where they eat into the base and entirely consume the incipient 

 pod. These little larvce are one line long, of an orange colour, 

 tapering to the head, and blunt at the tail. In all probability 

 they are the offspring of some species of Cecidomyia allied to the 

 wheat-midere. 



