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this is due to the Injetles or subseiiuent decay I could not say for 

 certain, hut I heliove from the hitter. 



On July Ulli, I \nx>te to this ellect to Mr. Staines, to which he 

 ivplied that he ha<l also come to the conclusion that these l>eetle8 

 \\\'V\i cau.sin„' much hann. 



Xot coiitL-nt with (lamaf,'inj; iX)tatoes, they spread into an onion 







Pio. 10.— TUE PIGMY POTATO BEETLE (Bathyscia I. ;. Jmw.) 



A. Soctloo ul damagod pouto ( I7 the l>r«tlc, i'> , i' <:.% 1.^. 1 



Ix'd and niinetl quite half the crop. Just as in the potato crop, so 

 witli the onion, they wt»rk underground. Tlie nM»tlets of the onions 

 weiv eaten off, S4» tliat the plants fell down ; the ' ' also nihhh'd 

 at the lower i>art of the onions and so cau.sed them i- -jiii and l)ecome 

 worthless. I tn«'d them with numerous other foo«l plants experi- 

 mentally, and found parsnips the only one they would touch; hut if 

 a parsnip, an union, and a iKitato were put in the same box, they 



