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p-uni, F. (mealy plum aphis), very general in. Cambridgeshire ; 

 Eriosoma {Schizoneura) lanigerum, Hansm., reported as doing much 

 damage in the eastern counties. 



Coleoptera. Wireworms, doing much damage to oats and barley 

 on newly-broken grass-land; Lema melanopa, L., very abundant on 

 wheat in Kent and Shropshire in July ; Psylliodes affinis, Payk. 

 (potato flea-beetle), a well-known Continental pest, reported as 

 damaging potatoes in many districts, its normal food-plant in this 

 country being Solanum diilcamara (woody nightshade), also recorded 

 as attacking apple foliage in Kent ; Atoinaria linearis, Steph., injuring 

 seedling mangels; PhyUotreta 7ie>nor«>w, L., on turnips, successfully 

 controlled by spraying wdth a cpiassia and soap mixture ; Melolontha 

 melolontha, L. , the larva being reported as attacking mangels ; 

 BrucJius 'pisonim, L. {'pisi, L.), responsible for considerable damage to 

 peas in Shropshire ; B. rufimanus, Boh., severely attacking beans ; 

 Sitones lineatus, L., causing the worst attack within recent times on 

 peas and beans, in many places completely destroying the crop, the 

 best control having been obtained by an early application of soot, 

 or, failing this, fine road dust, a later spraying with lead arsenate 

 also proving beneficial ; Apion trifolii, F., in one district damaging 

 tlie foliage of dwarf and runner beans, to which it had migrated from a 

 neighbouring stack of lucerne and clover, also attacldng parsnips, and 

 in another locality the green fruit of peaches ; PhylloperlJia horticola, L., 

 attacking the flower-heads and yomig shoots of peas and beans, 

 and damaging sandy pastures in North Wales ; Ampkimallus 

 {Rhizotrogits) solstitialis, L. , the larvae attacking cabbages in Cambridge- 

 shire ; Byturus tomentosus, F., causing much damage to raspberries 

 and logan})erries in Shropshire and the eastern counties ; Galerucella 

 te/tella, L. , severely attacldng strawberries at Buckingham ; 

 Otiorrhynchus picipes, F., causing very serious damage to raspberries ; 

 Anihonoinus nibi, Hbst., causing much loss to strawberry growers; 

 Xyleborus dispar, F. (shot-borer beetle), a few serious cases of damage 

 to plum trees being recorded from the southern counties, X. xylographus 

 {saxeseni, Ratz.), being also implicated ; and Scolytus rugulosus, 

 Ratz., causing severe damage to plums in Worcestershire. 



Lepidoptera. Hydroecia micacea, Esp., widely distributed in 

 allotments, etc., in June and July and doing extensive damage; 

 Pier is brassicae, L., the larvae being reported as damaging the pods 

 of turnips and swedes grown for seed, and together with P. napi being 

 universally abundant and causing widespread damage, in one case 

 attacking onions, a very liigh percentage of the larvae, however, 

 being parasitised and in some places kept in check by hand-picking, 

 dusting with fresh slaked lime and spraying with a sohition of common 

 salt ; Pluiella maculipennis, Curt, (diamond-back moth), which was not 

 plentiful, one small attack being reported from Yorkshire ; Caradrhm 

 davi'palpis, Scop, {quadripunctata, F.), the young larvae doing 

 great damage to stacked peas in Essex ; Hepialvs sp., the larvae 

 being found boring into the stems of broad beans ; Charaeas graminis, 

 L. (antler moth), a general outbreak occurring from the Peak to the 

 Lake District on poor upland pastures ; Barathra [Mamestra) brassicae 

 L., causing considerable losses of cabbages etc. generally, and also 

 reported as attacking onions and green tomatoes ; Clieimatobia 

 bntmata, li. (winter moth), exceedingly abundant in practically 



