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borne in terminal racemes, as in the pollen parent, but are much larger, and 
show more of the character of E. Wallisii. The sepals and petals are rich 
dark brown, and spotted with dark red-brown, each spot having a narrow 
pale ring round it. There is also a small whitish area at the extreme base 
of the segments. The lip is white, with a yellow area at the base and a 
number of rosy-purple spots. The habit is neat, as in the pollen parent. 
The racemes bear three to five flowers. A good plant was exhibited at the 
meeting of the R. H. S. on March roth last, and received a First-class 
Certificate. It is now in the rich collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. 
Messrs. Veitch now send us flowers of a remarkable variety of the same, 
in which the sepals and petals are entirely light yellow, and the disc of the 
lip nearly half red-purple, partially arranged in radiating lines. In other 
respects it agrees with the type. It is very pretty and strikingly distinct, 
and illustrates once more the variability of secondary hybrids. 
LL Spgs ates 
CATTLEYA FLY. 
I THINK your correspondent who wrote in the March number on the 
Cattleya fly, has not discovered the true fly or grub. I have, unfortunately, 
had a long and bitter experience of both, and have inspected many pupae, 
from which my gardener has hatched out the perfect insect. The fly is 
small, shining-black, and very hard. I enclose a dead specimen with this 
letter. Furthermore, although we have Lzelia purpurata, and other species 
growing in the infected Cattleya house, we have never known a single 
Lelia to be attacked. It would appear then that there are two distinct 
enemies to be dealt with, one ravaging the Cattleyas, and the other the 
Leelias. < 
We have cut away hundreds of infected growths, fumigated, and tried 
every known remedy ; but really we seem almost as far off the end as ever, 
while the vitality of the plants has been seriously impaired. I shall buy no 
more Cattleyas until all traces of the enemy have vanished. 
HERBERT MILLINGTON. 
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exactly identical with some previously 
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insect sent is a small black fly: ee ac doobt it is 
received from Mr. F. Roeslin, of Tynemouth, and we h 
the true Cattleya Fly. The fly alluded to by Mr. Hamilton at ed - ie 
found on Lelia purpurata, is evidently something else, but whet! a _ 
Cause of the mischief, or a parasite on the other, we cannot ay e 
tps an who can throw any further light on this matter will not 
fail to do so.—Ep.] 
