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other in those of Aquilegia vulgaris. The pupse from the 

 columbine are of a shining amber, those from the crow-foot of 

 a dark brown. 



Umbellifer^. — I have met with two miners in the leaves of 

 our Umbelliferee. One tunnels Angelica sylvestris ; the otlier, 

 which is far more common, Heracleum sphondylium. Several of 

 the latter larvae have pupated and given forth their tenants, the 

 Phytomyza albiceps of Meigen. 



Caprifoliace^. — The miner of the honeysuckle, Lonicera 

 periclymemtm, appears on the wing in spring. It pupates within 

 the mine, and puts on wings during the first sunny days of April. 

 I hatched several last year. It may prove identical with the 

 Phytomyza aprilina of Goureau. 



CoMPosiTJE. — No fewer than eight of our Composites give 

 evidence of mining Diptera, — Sonchus, Lactuca muralis, Lapsana, 

 Taraxacum, Bellis, Tussilago, Arctium, and Senecio vulgaris. I 

 have a good supply of pup?e from them all. Those of Tussilago 

 and Senecio are pale yellow, the others are blackish brown. 



Labiate. — The leaves of Stachys sylvatica were blotched in 

 September, the larvte pupating in October. The pupa is dark 

 amber. 



Primulace^e. — The common primrose offers a beautiful mine. 

 The larva, when full-fed, creeps forth and pupates most frequently 

 near the mid-rib or at the foot of the lateral rib ; the case is hid 

 among the down on the under side of the leaf. I have above fifty 

 pupte of this fly. It is somewhat difficult to detect the pupa in its 

 downy covering. I hatched this species in 1873, and it was 

 then supposed to be identical with the Phytomyza primulce of 

 Macquart. 



Chenopodiace^.--I noticed that the leaves of the mangold, 

 Beta cicla, were blotched and blistered in the summer by a most 

 voracious larva ; whole fields looked as if they had been scorched. 

 I bred the fly, and it proved to be, according to Dr. Meade, the 

 Anthomyia sulcans of Rondani, the true Anthomyia Betce of Curtis, 

 who has the prior claim, I am told, as regards the nomenclature.* 

 Polygonace^.— i?w?«(?a; acetosa was blistered and blotched by 

 a miner, that proves to be the Chortophila transversalis of Zetter- 

 stedt. This larva is most ravenous, like that of the mangold, even 



* For an exhaustive article 1121011 the dipterous leaf-miner of the mangold, see 

 Mr. Fitch's papers in this and last numbers of Entom. pp. 8 and 25. — Ed. 



