ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXXV 



United States. " The grey grub is a formidable enemy to all 

 kinds of turnips, but prefers the common turnip to the Swedish. 

 Except that they are smaller, they resemble the common grubs 

 that cut off our cabbage, Indian corn, &c., and like them are pro- 

 duced from the eggs of a grey moth or miller, that flies by night. 

 They are not eaten either by domestic fowls or robins, both of 

 whom devour the common cut-worm or cabbage grub, but the 

 parent moths are fed to their young by the robins. A consider- 

 able proportion of these grubs can be destroyed by lime if applied 

 at the proper time. The turnips should be frequently examined 

 from the time the leaves are three inches long. The grubs will 

 be found at first under a web, like that of a spider, which generally 

 covers about a dozen, which are not then thicker than so many pins. 

 If the lime is applied immediately it will destroy most of them, 

 but if tliey are neglected for three or four days they will leave 

 the web and conceal themselves under dead leaves, chips, or small 

 stones by day, and devour the leaves by night, without being 

 checked in any degree by lime, tobacco water, or any other appli- 

 cation that we have tried. The lime should be slacked three or 

 four weeks before it is expected to be wanted, and kept dry ; and 

 should be applied early in the morning while the leaves are 

 covered with dew. Take about three pints of lime in an oznaburg 

 bag that will hold a gallon, and pass through the field shaking it 

 over the leaves ; the lime will fly through the bag like smoke, and 

 make the lower side of the leaves nearly as white as the top. 

 After this the turnips should still be watched, for the eggs are in 

 some seasons deposited upon the leaves a second and a third 

 time." 



Mr. Doubleday exhibited some larvse of one of the Tineidce, 

 which had destroyed the corks of a stock of wine so as to render 

 it necessary to recork all the bottles. 



Mr. Saunders remarked on some previous communications on 

 the same subject. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas called the attention of the meeting to a 

 remark in a recent part of the Annales de la Societe Entomo- 

 logique de la France, in which M. Guenee spoke of the name 

 occultana given by Mr. Douglas to a species of Pcedisca, as a 

 manuscript name, whereas it was described by him in the " Zoo- 

 logist" for 1846. ' He also stated that Mrs. Vines, a lady residing 

 in the New Forest, having last year reared a great many specimens 

 of Catocala sponsa and C. jxrotnissa, had observed that they all 

 emerged from the pupa between the hours of ten and twelve p.m. 



