Peckham, Kent, said some of his plantation strawberries were not 
doing well, aad on digging them up found great numbers of 
springtails around them. Professor CARPENTER identified these 
for me, and found them to be 7° empletonia nitida, which is 
recorded later as found on and breeding in corpses in Europe 
(tig. ar): 
Similar damage was traced in my own garden, the roots and 
bases of the leaves being eaten away in patches, some to such an 
expent that the plants died. This pale yellowish to pinkish species 
literally swarmed around the plants. They disappeared as soon as 
the soil became dry without any special treatment, but recurred 
again after heavy rains, and the plants had a good dressing of fine 
lime hoed in around them, which again drove the Springtails away. 
They were found in numbersisheltering under some seed boxes 
near the strawberry beds. 
Degeeria annulata F ABRICIUS feeding on currant leaves. 
This species (fig. 12), which is a most active runner, is also 
possibly connected in some way with the disease in currants, etc., 
caused by S. luteus. 
In one lot of currant bushes I had constantly under observation 
these Aptera swarmed on the leaves in the second week of July, 
and were watched browsing off the upper epidermis, whilst the 
yellow Sminthurus were feeding below. Considerable variation in 
the dark markings were noticed, but the general pattern answered 
to LUBBOCK’s figure (plate 31, Mon. Collembola and Thysa- 
nura 1872). In August of the same year they still further increased 
on the currants, and seemed to take the place of Sminthurus luteus. 
I could not find them on neighbouring plants, but many were to be 
found on the soil. 
Mushrooms attacked by Achorutes rufescens NICOLET. 
In October 1908, information was sought regarding the great 
damage done to mushrooms in the Bede of the Now done 
mushroom quarries. Professor CARPENTER examined the speci- 
mens, and said they were Achorutes rufescens of NICOLET. The 
damage was again reported in August 1909. Mr. W. F.TAYLOR then 
