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has been particularly the case this year, to account for the 

 appearance of the leaves of the Cinerarias just before they 

 come into bloom and while they are in bloom ; the leaves 

 turn flabby and hang down, but I find no Aphides on them. 

 The usual apyjliances of tobacco-smoke and Gishursl's com- 

 pound have been made without good effect. — James IVallis ; 

 Leeds, JSIay 15, 1866. 



Leaf-miner of Ike Violet. — Three leaves out of every ten 

 of the violet (Viola odorala) are blotched and bladdered by a 

 small grub which feeds between the two cuticles : the ap- 

 pearance is that of ochre-coloured snow showered over the 

 leaves. What is the insect, and what the remedy .? By a 

 little information you will oblige — A Subscriber from the 

 hegimiing. 



[The same insect has attacked my own violets, and I have 

 sent a dozen leaves to Mr. Staintou, who thinks the insect 

 dipterous. — Edward Newman.^ 



Blight of the Fuchsia. — I am excessively plagued, even at 

 this early period of the year, with an insect which attacks the 

 nnder side of the leaves of the Fuchsia, which are only just 

 now expanding : there are one or more specimens on each of 

 the shoots I send. They are not the common plant-lice or 

 Aphides, but a good deal resemble them : wherever there is 

 an insect the leaf is crumpled and distorted. It is curious 

 that all the plants infested are those which have flowers with 

 white sepals ; those having crimson sepals remain healthy. — 

 J. S. Bourne; Bristol, April 30, 1866. 



[The infesting insect is the larva, or in some instances the 

 egg only, of Aphrophora spumaria, the creature which pro- 

 duces the familiar but very objectionable cuckoo-spittle : it 

 is singular that in several instances the crumpling of the leaf 

 occurs where the egg only is visible ; how this affects the 

 ordinary circulation or sap I am unable to explain. — Edward 

 Newman.^ 



Thecla Quercus in Cumberland and TVestmoreland. — Mr. 

 Peter Gray states (Kntom. iii. 73), on the authority of Mr. 

 Lennon, that Thecla Quercus is not found in either Cumber- 

 land or Westmoreland : the following records will be suf- 

 ficient, I think, to establish its occurrence in at all events the 

 former county: — Lake district (Slainton's 'Manual '); Carlisle 

 (Mr. Cartmel, in the ' Substitute ') ; Cumberland (Mr. Arm- 



