Quarterly Report of the Consulting Entomologist. GOS' 
with horse-dung and bone-dust suffered from attacks of cabbage- 
grub, land close bv, manured with mineral superphosphate, 
escaped. I have therefore mentioned this in reply to corre- 
spondents. 
I wish also to draw attention to the onion-fly laying its eggs 
much more at the base, or side of the bulb, rather than on the 
leaves, than is usually supposed. Acting on this, I have, both 
during the present and last summer, had onions experimentally 
earthed up at intervals, and by thus keeping the fly from laying 
where the eggs would develop have much diminished attack. 
Apple-weevils {Anthonomus pomorum) have been reported as 
injurious in Kent and the Isle 
of Wight, and also to have Tig. 2.-Antliommns pomonm 
done much harm in the district (Apple-weevil), 
round Isleworth, by means of 
their small white maggots, 
which, hatching from an egg 
laid in the forming bud, 
destrov it by feeding within. 
As this weevil shelters 
during winter under rough 
bark or rubbish on or near 
the trees, and falls to the 
ground on being alarmed, 
also as the females rarely 
fly, I have advised keeping 
the bark in good condition, 
and the ground beneath free 
1. Weevil. 2. Chrysalis, 
size and magaified). 4. 
3. Larva (all natural 
Injured Apple-bud. 
from rubbish, &.c 
and throwing 
also shaking 
e:as-lime, or what- 
round the 
the boughs well in March, 
ever might be preferred, under the branches and 
trunk, to prevent the beetles crawling back again. 
Apple-trees also suffered severely near Guildford from the 
caterpillars of the " winter moth," Cheimatohia brumata, and 
although in the case of injury to oak-foliage some of this was 
shown, by specimens forwarded by his Grace the Duke of 
Bedford, to be caused bv the small green-and-grev leaf-roller 
moth — the Tortrix viridana — some appeared to be caused bv 
the Cheimatobia, especiallv in the woods at Longleat. Attack 
from this cause may be guarded against, as the female winter- 
moths have abortive wings ; consequently if, when they develop 
in November, anything which they cannot cross is thrown round 
the trees to be protected, they may thus be prevented crawling 
up the trunks to deposit their eggs on the branches, and in 
gardens and orchards, if not on a larger scale, much might be 
thus done to save the trees. 
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