518 Observations on Insects affecting the Corn-Crovs. 
Fig. 15.* Miris dolabratus, pupa. 
w The natural length. 
Fig. 16.* 3Iiris dolabratus, male. 
X The natural length. ♦ 
Fig. 11. A grain of wheat. 
y The pupa-case, exscrted. 
Fig. 18.* The grain magnified. 
z* The pupa-case ditto. 
Fig. 19.* Oscinis granarius, female ? 
a The natural size. 
Fig. 20. A portion of an ear of corn. 
b The punctured Aphides. 
Fig. 21.* Ephedrus plagiator, female. 
c The natural size. 
Fig. 22.* Cerapliron Carpenteri, male. 
• d The natural size. 
e* Antenna of female. 
Fig. 23. Portion of a full-grown diseased ear of white wheat. 
f The ear cockles. 
Fig. 24.* Transverse section of an infected young germen, from the 
upper part of a green spiket. 
Fig. 25.* An infected young germen in a more advanced state. 
Fig. 26.* Transverse section of the same, having several large worms, a 
great many eggs, and some young worms in its cavity. 
Fig. 21* A young worm. 
Fig. 28.* " One of the largest worms in its most usual attitude, and in 
the act of laying its eggs." 
Fig. 29.* The eggs coming forth in a series. 
Fig. 30.* " An egg containing a living young worm, twisted and roiled 
up in its natural manner." 
Obs. — Those numbers and letters with a * attached, refer to the 
objects which are represented larger than life. All the figures are 
drawn from nature, excepting 2, c and d, which are copied from the 
Linnsean Transactions, and 23 to 30 inclusive from Mr. Bauer's draw- 
ings for the Philosophical Transactions. 
The Copyright of this Paper is reserved to the Writer. 
* Hayes, near Uxbridge, Nov. 1845. 
XLII. — On converting a Moory Hill-side into Catch Meadow. 
By John Koals, of Brendon Farm, Somersetshire. 
Prize Essay. 
At Lady-day, 1816, I began to farm three hundred acres of ■ 
land on Brendon Hill, the property of the Earl of Carnarvon, 
the elevation of which is one thousand feet above the scaj about 
