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CORN AND GRASS.* 
Rose Chafer. Phyllopertha horticola, Linn. 
Cockchafer. Melolontha vulgaris, Fab. 
PHYLLOPERTHA HORTICOLA.—3, beetle, nat. size; 4, with wings expanded, magnified ; 
5, grub, magnified. 
During the past year, enquiries regarding chafers (which have 
been so frequently recorded as mischievous of late years) occurred at 
intervals from February 21st to October 8th. Last year four species 
were noticed; in the past season the only kinds reported were the 
Cockchafer and the Rose Chafer, and chiefly the latter; and it will be 
seen that though we still need to know very much more as to methods 
of keeping these attacks in check, still some small amount of useful 
information has been gained. 
The first observation was sent me on February 21st from Detmore, 
near Cheltenham, by Miss Dobell, whose grass-land has suffered so 
much in previous years from both of the above-named kinds, that she 
has bestowed great attention on the subject. This year, speaking of 
the grubs, without distinguishing which species she then referred to, 
she mentioned, on February 21st :— 
‘‘T have done nothing to the grubs, as the moles have been working 
so hard at them that I did not like to put anything that would kill 
them. No frost seems to hurt the grubs; and where the moles and 
chickens and birds have not been, they are as thick as ever.” 
One of my first communications, however, regarding presence of 
Rose Chafers in beetle state during the past season was sent me on 
June 10th from Hazelhurst, Haslemere, Surrey, by Mr. T. P. Newman, 
* Many enquiries or communications have been sent in the course of the past 
season regarding common Corn and Grass attacks, as Corn and Grass Aphides, 
Daddy Longlegs, Wireworm, Gout Fly, &c.; but as the histories of these, with all 
known means of prevention and remedy, have been repeatedly entered on in these 
Reports, the reader is referred to these accounts, or other accessible publications, 
instead of again entering on the details.—E. A. O 
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