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mens in his cabinet, bred from cabbage and radish roots, do 7iot differ 

 specifically from those reared from the locust-egg feeding larvce. 



Synonymy of the Species. 

 From its general resemblance to the Anthomyia radicum of Europe, 

 it was at first regarded by Professor Kiley as simply a variety of that 

 form, and it was accordingly characterized by him as A. radicum var. 

 calopteni. Examples having been submitted to Mr. Meade, they were 

 by him referred to Anthomyia angustifrons of Meigen, which had been 

 placed by Rondani in the genus Chortophila. Recently Mr. Meade in- 

 formed me that C. angustifrons Meig. has been found by Rondani to 

 embrace three or four distinct species, differing in slight points of 

 structure, and that our locust-egg feeding species seems to correspond 

 to the one named by Rondani, as Chortophila cilicrura.* In the recent 

 re-arrangement of the Aiithomyiidce, it falls into the genus Phorhia. 

 Aricia fusciceps Zetterstedt, is believed to be a synonym of this species. 



Anthomyia brassicae Bouche. 



TJie Cahhage-Fly. 



Ord. DIPTERA : Fam. ANTHOMYIIDiE. 

 Botjche: Naturgescliiclite der Insecten, 1834, p. 74, pi. 5, f. 34. 

 Kirbt-Sp.: Introduc. Entomol. , 1846, p. 140 (infesting cauliflowers). 

 Curtis : Farm Insects, 1860, p. 141, figs. 1, 2 and 3 of no. 26, p. 143. 

 Fitch : Eleventh Rept. Ins. N. Y., in Trans. N. T. State Agricul. Soc. for 1866, 



XX vi, 1867, pp. 496-499. 

 Kiley : First Ann. Rept. Ins. Mo., 1869, p. 156 (mention); Fourth Rept. do., p. 



22 (parasite); Ninth Rept. do., p. 95 (mention). 

 Sprague : in Amer. Entomol., ii, 1870, pp. 302, 370 (Aleochara parasite). 

 Glover : MS. Notes Journ. — Entomolog. Index, 1877, p. 5 (references). 

 OSTEN Sacken : Cat. Dipt. N. Amer,, 1878, pp. 167, 258. 

 Barnard : in Amer. Entomol., iii, 1880, p. 199 (abundance of parasites). 

 Cook : in Amer. Entomol., iii, 1880, p. 264; in Canad. Entomol., xiii, 1881, p. 



190 (remedy). 

 Garfield : in 16th Rept. Mich. St. Board Agricul. , 1878, p. 61 (experiments with 



remedies). 

 Ormerod : Manual In j. Ins., [1881], p. 31, figs. 1, 2, 3 (habits, transformation and 



remedies) . 



Its Operations Upon Cabbages. 



This is probably the most injurious species of the A7itho7nyiidCB, as 

 its distribution is very extensive both in Europe and America, and it 

 has shown at times such capacity for multiplication as to cause entire 



*This species should not be confounded with the Homalornyia cilicrura of Rondani (which 

 is a synonym of E.foricola Meig.), for, according to Mr. Meade, Rondani yery strangely 

 gave the same specific name to two quite distinct Anthomyians. 



