214 THR ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" the white maggot," which feeds at the roots, and by separating 

 the crown is the cause of much loss of plant in the second 

 spring. I have had many specimens of this coleopterous 

 larva, but never succeeded in rearing it. With regard to the 

 former, a gentleman, who has more entomological knowledge 

 than the average of agriculturists, in so much that he knows 

 the "turnip fly" to be a beetle, assures me the "clover fly" 

 is the same insect ; whether it be the Haltica I think is very 

 doubtful, but this is circumstantial evidence that the little 

 depredator is coleopterous: it may possibly be Sitones. 

 Although I have forty-nine acres of red clover, all of which 

 is more or less aff'ected, after repeated search — in sunshine, in 

 dull weather, and by night — I have quite failed to find a single 

 Haltica, weevil, or whatever the " fly" may be. A small slug 

 occurs in plenty, and I must think these have done the whole 

 damage in my case : it is well known they assist at all times, 

 more or less according to seasons. I hope this note may lead 

 to the identification of this little unknown. Last Monday, 

 when out driving, I noticed what was to me an unknown 

 agricultural implement at work in a field of barley, and 

 found it consisted of some coarse sacking (old guano bags) 

 stretched over a frame, and trailing loose behind ; the frame 

 running on two wheels was being driven up and down the 

 field " to brush the fly off" the young clover." Whether 

 " Pertwee's patent" stayed the plague, I know not. However, 

 it was decidedly a move in the right direction, an attempt to 

 cope with insect attack. I hear from one source that the < 

 young lucerne has suffered in like manner with the clover. — 

 kowARD A. Fitch ; Maiden, Essex, June 6, 1877. 



Captures at Epping. — Amongst my captures in Epping 

 Forest this season I may note the larvae of Pyrameis cardui 

 in great profusion : tliey may now be found in some districts 

 on almost every thistle plant. During the first week in June 

 the pretty little Erastria venustula was not infrequent; 

 while during the early part of this July Limacodes aseUus^ 

 Stigmofwfa interruplana, and Chrosis Audouinana were 

 taken. — T. Ekdle; 40, Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, E., 

 July, 1877. 



Pyrrhocoris aptkrus. — In answer to Dr. Buchanan White, 

 as to what my reasons are for supposing Pyrrhocoris apierus 

 had exterminated the ants from the rock off Teignmoulh, 1 



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