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which we could not harrow, and, as it may be interesting to you to 
see how the bulbs have been injured by this creature, I have forwarded 
a specimen root, together with two of the caterpillars. Lime and 
chalk are great helps in getting rid of these pests ; they do not like 
gas-lime.” 
The following short note from Mr. James Craig, Weston-under- 
Lizard, Shifnal, Salop, refers to the benefit received from hand¬ 
picking :— 
“ I had large numbers of the grubs picked from the roots of my 
Turnips last year, after hearing from you, and thus, I think, saved a 
good portion of the crop.” 
The following note relates to the fact (which is not usually enough 
considered) that unless the Turnip grubs are destroyed by some means, 
natural or artificial, they will live on through the winter, and start 
fresh attack next year from the moths to which in regular course the 
caterpillars change. 
Col. Gr. Coussmaker, writing from Westwood, near Guildford, 
observed :—‘‘ As regards my particular enemy the Dart Moth, I was 
astonished this last winter, in the middle of February, when pulling 
up some Cabbage-stumps, to find some of the caterpillars alive in the 
ground, and seemingly none the worse for the hard frosts which we 
had had.” 
Turnip-gall Weevil. Ceutorhynclms sulcicoUis, Stephens. 
Ceutoehynchus sulcicollis. 
1—5, gall with maggot, nat. size and magnified ; 6 and 7, weevil, nat. size and 
magnified; 8, leg of weevil, magnified. 
Enquiries are occasionally forwarded regarding weevil-galls on 
Turnips. The appearance of these knobs or gall-growths on Turnip 
bulbs is very well known, and where they are only in small numbers 
they are of little consequence, but when numerous they spoil the 
appearance of the Turnip, and cause some amount of damage. But, 
