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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



surface, legs and claspers are apple-green without markings. 

 It feeds on ash, and is full fed in the first week in July. — 

 Edward Newman, 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8^c. 



The Tea Maggot. — Quite a miniature panic has been got 

 up by the presence of small white maggots in tea, more 

 particularly that choice description known as " scented 

 orange Pekoe." It was to be expected that my long articles 

 on injurious insects, in the ' Field' newspaper, would induce 

 the sufferers from the novel annoyance to consult me on the 

 subject, and I am quite willing to acknowledge that when I 



The Tea Maggot. 



received the first sample of this infested tea from my valued 

 friend that eminent floral decorator, Mr. William Thomson, 

 of the City Club, I was entirely ignorant of the very 

 existence of such a commercial pest : however, I proceeded 

 at once with the examination, and found that certain samples 

 of scented orange Pekoe were abundantly intermixed with 

 cream-coloured maggots, which viewed sideways exhibited a 

 fringe of hairs round the profile, a corneous head, an obese 

 body, and a swollen incurved anal extremity, reminding me 

 forcibly of the larva of some lamellicorn coleopteron, more 

 particularly of the genus Aphodius. The left-hand figure is 

 a very fair representation of the grub, and the line below 



