450 



Insect Pests. 



),ut as we know the ill effect of certain dressings on the young larviC 

 it IS well to prevent the damage Ij.v employing one <if them iu early 

 autumn. 



riEFKUKXCES. 



(1) Tlirohahl, F. V. Notes on Injurious Insects, Joiivnal H. E. Agri. Coll., 



Xo. ',, p. ;; (1S97). 



(2) Curtia, ./. (tai-deners' Chronicle, p. '"^7::! (1845). 



(3) C)riiinoil, Ji. A. Twentieth Report on Injurious Insects, p. 41 (1897). 

 (4l WhI/rhnul, S:r C. .Journal of tlie Board of Agriculture, vol. III., p. 36. 

 (.5) e)niirro,l E. J. ' JIanual of Injurious Insects,' (2nd Ed.), p. 9 (1890). 



(6) Tliruhnhl. F. r. -The Entomologist,' p. 194 (1896). 



(7) Cuok, il. C. 'Vegetable Wasps and Plant AVorms," p. 16.3 (1892i. 



THE HEART AND DART MOTH. 



(^iqidfiy. cxfldiiiiilioii Is. Linn.) 



AND THE YELLOW UNDERWING. 



(Trqihii iiii jirijiiiil"'. Liun.) 



The caterpillars of the Lleart and Dart :\L:ith now and then are 

 recorded as damaging the rootlets and runners of strawberries, and 



have also been found eating the 

 '■ tips " of loganberries. 



They are generally spoken of as 



surface larva', cutworms or brown 



grubs. There are several allietl 



larva- which feed in a similar 



way upon the roots of plants and 



grass, and prol.iably any of these 



may attack strawberry plants in 



a similar manner, but the only other one sent nie has been the large 



larva of the common Yellow Lnderwing (TiqihuiKi juvji/iha. Linn.), 



and this only on two occasions. 



FI«. iin. — \..\i:\\ iiF HE.VllT AND H.IKT MiiTII 



LlFK-IlisKjliV .VXD HaIUTS. 



The Heart and Dart Moth appears in June and July. The moth 

 (Fig. HOTi) is brownish to idniost clay coloured, the fore wings with 

 darker markings, one being almost kiduev shaped, one dagger shapcil 

 and darkened towards the edges ; tho under wings of the male arc 

 almost pearly white, of the ienialc, lirown. 'Fhe natural size is seen 

 in the photograph (Fig. :.".j."i). 'I'hc eggs (Fig. l".ili) arc laid at du.sk on 

 nlauts close t(,i (lie ground and e^■cn on objects on the ground. The 



