damaging peas, beans and other vegetables in a garden, eating 
across the young green shoots just below the ground. 
There is no doubt that this species frequently does much harm, 
and other cases of Lipurid damage are here recorded. 
Lipura damaging roots of celery and cauliflower. 
A bad attack of Zipura sp.(1) was reported from Pembrokeshire 
in 1903. The specimens of insects sent were much damaged, and so 
not then identified. They attacked the roots and stems below 
ground of the cauliflowers, and the leaf stalks of the celery ; in some 
cases so badly that the outer tissues were eaten away all around, 
and the plants killed. In this case soot and lime mixed in to the 
soil had the desired effect of clearing out the Aptera (2). 
Mr. SAUNDERS tells me he found Zipura ambulans doing much 
harm to celery in 1909 in Cheshire. 
The same species was also noticed attacking seakale and aspa- 
ragus in 1910 in Cheshire. Two whole beds of asparagus were 
eaten up by them, the creatures swarming in the beds. 
Lipura fimetaria LINN AUS. 
This is found throughout the year in damp earth, often engaged 
in feeding upon carrots, potatoes and other roots. It is white and 
of a velvety texture, and often occurs in swarms in the soil. 
In all cases I have seen it has been associated with plants already 
diseased. 
COLLINGE (3) records Lipura ambulans LINN. on narcissus 
bulbs injured by the stem eelworm, and also examples of Achorutes 
armatus NICOLET, from nurserey gardens near Birmingham. 
Damage to strawberry roots by Templetonta 
(HTeteromurus) nitida TEMPLETON. 
In June of this year (1910) a correspondent writing from East 
11) This is now known to have been Zipura ambulans LINNEUS. 
(2) F. V. THEOBALD, Second Report on Economic Zoology (Brit. Mus.) 
p. 158, 1904. 
(3) Report on the injurious Insects and other animals observed in the Midland 
Counties during 1905. p. 10, 1906. 
