80 Mr. Hardy's Entomological Notices for 1869. 



Festuca uniglumis, Sol., was by no means uncommon in 

 the beds of the Gala and Tweed this season ; whether it will 

 become permanent or not, another year will shew ; but, as it 

 is an annual, it is by no means unlikely that it may disappear. 

 It has not been gathered in Scotland before, and is, I believe, 

 found only on the sandy sea shores of England and Ireland. 



Cannibis sativa. Melrose and Galashiels. 



Atriplex deltoidea, Bab. Joppa. 



Rumex sctjtatus, L. Galashiels. 



Artemisia compacta. Tweedside, Melrose. 



Aster salignis. Tweedside, Melrose. 



On some Turnip Insects, and other Entomological Notices for 



1869. By James Hardy. 

 In the beginning of October, Mr. Langlands informed me 

 that his attention had been drawn to some disagreeable look- 

 ing insects that had attacked his Swedish turnips. At Old 

 Bewick they were confined to the headlands, and affected the 

 Swedes in large round patches, and destroyed the leaves, 

 giving the plants the appearance of dying off — the bulbs 

 becoming dry. To prevent them from spreading, Mr. Lang- 

 lands covered them with quick lime and lime water, which 

 made an end of them ; and at the close of November, the 

 plants thus treated were still living and attempting to throw 

 out fresh shoots. The same kind of insects had prevailed in 

 many places around, occasioning numerous withered patches 

 in open fields, as well as by the sides of the field. The 

 turnips, notwithstanding, especially the Swedes are, this 

 season, a heavy crop in that quarter. On obtaining from 

 Mr. Langlands examples of the insects, I found they admitted 

 of some variety. The most prevalent, and at the same time 

 the most disgusting, was a bluish green, white powdered 

 Aphis, clustered in a vast association of all ages and sizes 

 beneath the leaf. This was the Aphis brassicce. It fre- 

 quents cabbages, but its wild plant hereabouts is the Raphanus 

 raphanistrum, or ee runch." More scattered in its diffusion 

 was a green or pink Aphis, which was the Aphis dianthi. 

 Like other vagabond species it delights in aliases ; it is Aphis 

 rapes, A. vastator, A. vulgaris, &c. ; but Aphis dianthi is 

 the oldest and most legitimate nomenclature ; and it is like- 

 wise the " Green Fly " of the conservatory. Although the 

 child of heat, it rises to a higher altitude than the other, 



