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XXXIII. — Quarterly Report of the Consulting Entomologist. 
By Miss Eleanor A. Oemeeod, Consulting Entomologist 
to the Society. 
I BEG to report that since the beginning of May many applica- 
tions have been sent regarding attacks of injurious insects. 
Notes have been forwarded regarding attacks of asparagus- 
beetles {^Crioceris asparagi) from his Grace the Duke of Bedford 
and others, and inquiries have been made as to the habits and 
means of prevention of hop aphis and cuckoo-fly, turnip-fly 
or flea-beetle,* crane-fly, f mustard-beetle, | willow-beetle, § 
and wireworms (larva? of various kinds of elaters or click- 
beetles), to which I have replied as fully as possible ; and in 
cases where remedial means have not yet been recorded in this 
country, I have suggested treatment which has been found 
useful in Germany or America. 
1 Inquiries have been sent in as to remedies for beet-fly,|| and 
i information given of the various kind of manure, as guano, soot, 
i mineral superphosphate, nitrate of soda, &c., which have been 
I found serviceable as stimulating applications to keep up the 
j strength of the plants during the continuance of attack ; also 
' (where the plan can be carried out) that the second attack of 
fly may be much lessened by cutting off leaves or drawing young 
plants that are infested, taking care that these are removed and 
destroyed, in order that the grub may not leave them, and go 
1 into the earth for its change to the perfect fly. 
Three species of insects injurious to crops have been reported 
^ (with nearly complete details), of which the histories had not 
previously been recorded. 
The pea-weevil (^Sitona lineatd),^ of which the first stages have 
I been looked for unsuccessfully from the time of John Curtis, 
! has been traced from its larval state up to development by 
Mr. Hart, of Park Farm, Kingsnorth, Kent, who gives the 
I following information. 
I The maggots are somewhat under a quarter of an inch in 
I length, white, with brown or ochrey head, furnished with strong 
1 jaws ; legless, and much wrinkled ; they were found feeding at 
the end of May on pea-roots. In some instances there were 
indications of their having eaten channels along the main roots, 
j but for the most part the soft knobs, or gall-like growths com- 
S monly to be found on roots of peas (as well as of other legu- 
( minous plants), appeared to be their favourite food. 
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i| * Haltica (Phijllotreta) nemorum and H. undidata. f Tipula oleracea. 
|1 X Phxdon BetuJx. § Phratora viirUinx. 
l] II Anthomyia {Chortophila) Betx. ^ Sitoncs Uneatus, Schouh. 
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