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CARKOT. — CELEEY. 



Purple Carrot-seed Moth. Deprcssayid deprcsseUa, Curtis. 



The caterpillars of this moth resemble, both in habits and 

 appearance, those of the Carrot-blossom Moth, but are rather 

 smaller, being hardly more than a quarter of an inch long. 

 They are brownish grey in colour, and the black hairs grow 

 from white instead of from black warts. The sides of the 

 body have swollen edges. Their food-plants appear like those 

 of the Carrot-blossom Moth — as also means of prevention, &c. 



Note. — The scientific names of the species of Depressaria 

 are those given by Curtis in his ' Farm Insects.' 



CELERY. 



Celery and Parsnip Fly. 



TepJtritis onopordinis, Fab.; Tnjpcta unopurdinis, Meig. 



Tephritis onopordinis : fly, magnified ; line showing nat. size ; maggot and 

 liupa figured in blistered leaf. 



These flies infest the leafage of both Celery and Parsnip, but 

 as it is the former of the two crops that usually suffers most, 

 I have placed the observations under the heading of Celery. 



The Celery Fly lays her eggs on, or in, the Celery-leaf, and 

 from these there hatch maggots of the shape figured above. 

 These maggots are fleshy, legless, pointed at the head, and 



