THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XI.] 



OCTOBEE, 1878. 



[No. 185. 



NOTES ON PSYLLIODES CHRYSOCEPHALA. 

 By E. A. Okmerod, F.M.S. 



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PSYLLIODES CHKYSOCEl'HALA. 



About March 18th of the present yeai, whilst examining w 

 bed of white turnips running up into flowering stems in my 

 garden, near Isleworlh, 1 noticed thai many of the shoots 

 were channelled internally by small grubs. In some cases 

 these galleries appeared only just begun, and were still only 

 horizontal piercings at distances along the stem, with the 

 larvae occupying more than half the length of the tunnel, but 

 more frequently, judging by the discoloration and the progress 

 of the injury, the work had been commenced some time before 

 at the ground level, and had been carried thence some inches 

 up the stem, occasionally diverging into the petiole of the 

 leaf; and later on (as shown at fig. 1) the larval workings 

 were to be found both in the centre and beneath the rind of 

 the bulb itself. 



The bed of turnips, as well as some others in the neigl;- 



2f 



