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attack extends at least the length of this estate (Dunglass), between eight 
and nine miles in Haddington and Berwickshire ; otherwise the tract 
of fine land bounded on the south by the Lammermoors, ending in the 
sea at Fast Castle, and the sixth milestone on the road east of Dunbar. 
I hear of it on the farms westwards, but have no information south of 
the Lammermoor range, having seen no one likely to know lately 
from that district. The Barley being later thereabout, I may yet be 
able to get away before it is cut, as the affected straws are more easily 
picked up before it is stooked.” 
Beverting again to regular order of date, on August 13th Mr. J. C. 
Buckmaster (of Schools of Science and Art, S. Kensington) sent me 
specimens of straw from a field near Kirklands, Dunbar, N.B., rather 
badly infested, but of which the crop had not suffered. 
August 16th, or about that day, Mr. Neil M. McFarlane, writing 
from Percy Street, Stanley, Perthshire, reported as follows (samples of 
attacked Barley were sent accompanying) :—“ A great many fields in 
this neighbourhood are infested; in fact nearly every Barley field has 
some of the pest in it, and the Wheat to a less extent. I have 
examined most of the fields myself, and some of them are very bad. 
One field in particular is so bad that one-third of the stalks are broken 
down. The specimens I send you were taken from two different fields. 
The Barley in both is strong and good, as you will see from several of 
the stalks. 1 find that the puparia are as common at the third joint 
as the second. Some of the specimens I send you show them at the 
fourth joint. On one field I gathered twenty infested stalks, and of 
these fifteen had bent at the third joint. On one stalk I found the 
puparia scattered all over the stalk. Some farmers here consider that 
they have got the pest along with foreign straw, while others consider 
that the hot dry season this year has rendered the crops more liable to 
it than formerly.” 
August 17th. Specimens of Wheat-straw infested by Hessian Fly 
chrysalids were sent me by Sir J. Stewart Richardson, from Pitfour 
Castle, Perth. 
On the 23rd of August Mr. John Milne, of Inverurie, Aberdeen¬ 
shire, reported as follows:—“ I enclose specimens of pupa found to be 
common in the joint or second knot of Barley in nearly every field in 
Aberdeen and Banffshire. They seem of various sizes. It is hoped 
they are not the pupa of the Hessian Fly, for, if so, it has got a firm 
footing in the Barley fields of the North of Scotland.” The specimens 
accompanying showed only too plainly that the chrysalids were true 
Hessian Fly puparia. On the 29th August Mr. Milne further 
mentioned:—“I regret that traces of this insect can be found in 
every field along the coast from Aberdeen to Cromarty, and inland for 
twenty-five to thirty miles. I enclose a few specimens of Wheat- 
