82 MANGOLDS. 



should be very glad to give any information in my power, for this is 

 one of the attacks about which we do not seem to be making any 

 advance. 



Note. — Two other attacks, which respectively are, or may very 

 likely be, at Mangold-roots, require a few words. The first of these 

 was of a species of surface caterpillar which I have not before had 

 notes of, and which was sent from two localities as doing much harm 

 to Mangold-roots. This was very like the common " Turnip Grub," 

 the larva of the Ar/rotis segetiim, in shape, and obviously very nearly 

 allied, but was entirely different in colour, being of a decided red or 

 reddish-brown tint along the upper part. As the caterpillars were 

 only partly grown, 1 could not name them with certainty, but they 

 appeared very possibly to be caterpillars of the Ayrotis sufusa, some- 

 times found in June at Mangolds. 



The other attack, which may very likely indeed be present at the 

 roots of Mangold, is of serious importance. This is the Beet Eelworm 

 figured and described at pp. 56 — 58 preceding. We know this kind is 

 in the country, but as yet we have not had report of it as at Mangolds, 

 though from the condition in which young plants have occasionally 

 been sent me for several years back, this Eelworm presence may very 

 likely be the cause of the unexplained failures. 



A few lines of description of the appearance of attacked Beet 

 (equally applicable to Mangolds) will be found at p. 59. If any such 

 "sickness" should be noticed in the coming season, I should be 

 particularly obliged by a few specimens being sent me, taken up with the 

 earth adliering to the rootlets, so that the small lemon- or citron- 

 shaped female Eelworms (see figures 4 and 5, p. 56) might be still 

 present for identification. 



