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had been ou them during the greater part of April. Attack of fly to 

 this crop is noticed as a circumstance never observed before, and that 

 probably the fly would not have eaten the Tares if there had been 

 anything else to be had. (L. P. 0.) 



Hattica rujipes is noticed by Kaltenbach in his ' Pflanzen feinde ' as 

 infesjbing Tares, and this species of fly is also mentioned in ' Illus. 

 Brit. Ent.' by J. F. Stephens as rather local, but found near York, and 

 in Northumberland. (ED.) 



