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proved to be Rose Chafers, having been sent him from a locality in 
south Hampshire, where a lawn had been attacked, and considerable 
damage done. 
One of the earliest observations, however, of appearance of the 
Rose Chafer beetles in great numbers in the past season was sent on 
the 6th of June by Miss Hampson, from Tyn-y-Celyn, Llanelltyd, 
Dolgelly, N. Wales. In this Miss Hampson mentioned that on the 
previous Sunday (that is, the 2nd of June) swarms of the enclosed 
insect appeared on the neighbouring mountains above the Mawdach 
or Barmouth River, and that, at the time of writing, they were at the 
lower levels also. 
At the above date notes were also sent by Miss Dobell, of Detmore, 
near Cheltenham, of reappearance of the Rose Chafers in great 
numbers on her fields, where they have done much mischief in 
previous years, and from which she has obliged me from time to time 
with observations of these and of Cockchafer attack which was like- 
wise present. On the 6th of June Miss Dobell wrote as follows :— 
‘You will, I think, be sorry to hear that we have the ‘ Rose Beetle’ 
in swarms. I suppose these beetles are from the grubs of 1892. We 
first saw them on Monday, June 3rd. They began to rise about 
12.30, and by one o’clock my Clover was covered by couples of 
beetles. My nieces set to work and gathered them into cups with 
water, and had to be very careful to put the hand wnder the Clover 
before touching it, or they fell into the grass. For two days we have 
been picking with the help of a boy, and gathered a large pint and a 
quarter of the poor little things; but to-day I have given up in despair, 
for the whole field, when the sun came out, was black with them 
flying. My man says all my neighbours’ fields are the same. I sent 
him up to my top field that is not put down for hay, and he said there 
were none on the two sides, but there seemed to be a band in the 
middle thick with them, like a swarm of bees, going to other fields. I 
have none on my Roses or trees; all seem on the flowers or Red 
Clover, that we have a great deal of.’’ 
On June 15th Miss Dobell reported further :—‘‘I am sorry to say 
the Rose Beetles kept on in thousands for a week, flying about over 
the fields till 1.80 or 2, and then again settling on the Clover till next 
morning, where for a week they kept flying; after that we have had 
about fifty or more picked off the yellow Scotch Roses. Only a very 
few have been on the other Roses.” 
The following observation, given in the ‘ Dublin Farmer’s Gazette’ 
for June 15th, 1895, at p. 828, is of a good deal of interest as showing 
the presence of the Phyllopertha horticola, or Rose Chafer, and also the - 
serious damage caused by this beetle to various kinds of garden crops, 
as far west in Ireland as the county of Galway :—‘ Co. Galway.— 
