70 HOP. 



attack was very serious in 1893, and also for a while in the past 

 season, it seems to me that lookiug at the proof we have of its 

 appearance having been greatly connected with the prevalence of 

 unusually dry weather, there is great reason to hope that with care for 

 a while to get rid of the remains of this extra presence we may not 

 have much more trouble about it. 



HOP. 



Golden Eye. Chrysopa imia, Linn. (Beneficial insect). 



Cheysopa peela. — Fly, magnified, and stalked eggs; larva, mag. and nat. size, 

 cased with rubbish ; also cocoon, mag. and nat. size. 



During the past season, the two most important kinds of Hop 

 infestations, those of Hop Aphis or Fly, and of Red Spider, have as 

 usual been present ; but the history of these, and what may be called 

 the artificial remedies, are so perfectly well known that there is no 

 occasion to enter on them again. But with our natural remedies the 

 case is different, and the insect foes, such as the Golden Eyes, or 

 Lace-winged Flies, and the Lady-bird Beetles, of which the variety of 

 kinds is not sufficiently known (nor in all cases their entirely beneficial 

 character), may be usefully mentioned. 



In the past season the Chrysopa perl a, one of our very common 

 species of " Golden Eye," was found hybernating in two localities in 

 the south east of England, early in the year, in such unusual numbers 

 as to make it appear at least likely that this quantity of indoor 

 shelterers were, like the unusual numbers of Wasps and some other 

 infestations of the early part of 1894, remains of the specially great 

 numbers of these that were present in the preceding year. 



An enquiry sent me on the 10th of February from a correspondent 

 writing from Frogholt, Hythe, Kent, mentioned the remarkably large 



