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They are usually regarded as a pest in hop gardens, where the 
measures adopted against wire-worms are generally successful 
against the millepede. 
A case in which millepedes were believed to be doing much 
injury to seakale and asparagus was reported in May last from Lan- 
cashire. Specimens which were forwarded proved to be the common 
Julus terrestris. All the usual remedies proved unavailing. It had 
been noticed, however, that the roots bought for planting were 
already infested; so that the grower has decided to remove the sur- 
face earth and replant with fresh roots from quite a different source. 
In view of this experience, it behoves all growers of seakale to 
examine for this pest the roots which they intend planting. 
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Miscellaneous Notes. 
In some roots of charlock sent to me by Professor Potter, of 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, there were numerous galls which contained 
weevil maggots, indistinguishable from those of the cabbage-gall 
weevil. I was unable to rear any of the insects, but if they are the 
true cabbage pest, they furnish a further reason for exterminating as 
far as possible this weed, upon which many noxious insects are known 
to feed. 
There appears to be among shepherds an almost unanimous 
belief that there is a beetle which “ blows ” sheep, and various points 
are alleged in which its attack differs from that of the fly. I have 
long desired to see the beetle which was suspected of this offence, 
and in June last Mr. A. 0. Elliott was good enough to send me a 
specimen which a shepherd believed he had taken in the act. It 
proved to be the very common Pterostichus madidus, an insect quite 
incapable of the misdeeds attributed to it. No doubt it had become 
accidentally entangled in the wool of the sheep. 
Some other pests with regard to which applications have been 
received are wire-worms, crane-fly, frit-fly, carrot-fly, wood-wasps, 
gooseberry saw-fly, ants, cabbage-butterfly, and winter-moth. No 
new facts, however, have been elicited which require notice in this 
Report. 
Cecil Warburton. 
