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live on the roots, and eat away all shoots." In ' Kollar on 

 Insects injurious to Gardeners, Farmers,' &c., p. 137 (English 

 translation) , it is stated: — "The food of the caterpillar con- 

 sists of all the soft parts of grasses. It lives at the roots, 

 and eats all the germs. Although it is in existence in autumn, 

 it lies benumbed in the earth in winter, and begins to eat 

 again in the spring ; yet the effect of its devastations appear 

 chiefly in the beginning of June, when it has changed its skin 

 for the last time." 



Kaltenbach (another good German authority) places the 

 Antler Moth amongst the insects infesting Wheat and Rye, 

 and, under the head of Barley, notes that the caterpillars 

 live at the roots of various kinds of cereals, to which they 

 are destructive ; and Linnteus stated the Antler Moth cater- 

 pillars to be "the most destructive of Swedish caterpillars, 

 laying waste our meadows, and annihilating our crops of 

 hay." 



The extent of spread of the Scottish attack was shown on 

 a map forwarded at the time by a line enclosing an area 

 of about seven miles by five miles, lying in the west of 

 Selkirkshire, with Ettrick Water running down the middle.^ 



The accompanying map will show the mountain ground 

 and large area over which the summer attack of 1884 

 extended in Glamorganshire. 



District of Glamorganshire attacked by caterpillars of Antler Moth (Photo 

 etched from Cruchley's Tourist's Map). 



Scale of Euglish miles. | | j j | 1_ 



