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week, and were fitted tightly to the earth. At the end of this time 
many flies were found and a number captured for identification. 
During the same month Mr. E. E. Ewell, assistant chemist, called 
the writer's attention to injury to bean stalks grown on the Depart- 
ment grounds, due to the work of a maggot and to other causes. 
Some were collected and reared to the adult, which proved to be 
Phorbia fusciceps. The fly issued June 11. 
November 6 to 15 the species was again reared from cabbage from 
Meansville, Ga. 
In 1900, May 15, we received larva? from Mr. E. A. Wilson, Roll- 
over, Tex., where the}^ were doing much damage to the roots of cab- 
bage. June 20 we received information of the occurrence of the flies 
in alarming numbers at Falls Church, Va. 
EARLIER DIVISIONAL RECORDS OF INJURY AND OCCURRENCES. 
March 5, 1880, we received from Mr. J. S. Newman, Atlanta, Ga., 
a lot of turnips infested by the maggot of this species. 
April 8, 1884, a fty appeared from among a lot of Tineid galls col- 
lected by Mr. A. Koebele on poplar at Holderness, N. H. 
December 4, 1885, we received from Mr. J. G. Jack, at that time 
at Chateauguay Basin, Province of Quebec, Canada, specimens of this 
fly with the statement that the larvae had been very destructive to 
beans that summer. This attack will be mentioned more at length 
under the heading "Literature of the species." 
June 7, 1889, we received larvae from Mr. F. N. Tillinghast, Green- 
port, N. Y. , with the report that the species was doing much damage 
to the roots of young cabbage. 
April 30, 1890, we received from Mr. Clark, Benning, D. C, some 
young cabbage plants rained by this maggot. 
During 1894 we received, August 6, from Mr. M. V. Slingerland, 
Ithaca, N. Y., larvae about which he has published, as will be pres- 
ently mentioned. Later we received from the same correspondent 
adults reared from cabbage roots on Long Island. September 14 we 
received this species in cabbage heads from Mr. L. H. Reed, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. From this lot the mature flies issued June 14, 18, and 
20 of the following year. 
June 14, 1895, Mr. Reed sent bean plants showing injury by this 
species from Plainfield, Wis. (See Ins. Life, Vol. VII, p. 429.) Feb- 
ruary 5, 1895, we received word from F. A. Young & Co., of New 
York City, that this species was causing considerable trouble to cab- 
bage crops in South Carolina. It appeared to confine its operations 
to the stems and roots, and was more plentiful in new land. 
