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the farmer who sent them had about 500 acres of grain crops, and a 
great deal of his Barley appears to be affected. On Aug. 29tli specimens 
of the same attack were sent me on Barley-stems from the Estate Offices, 
Ashby-de-la-Zoucli, by Mr. John Gorman, with an observation of the 
damage being noticeable at the highest joint beneath the ear, and also 
that a husk or skin (that is, the chrysalis-case) was left behind in each 
stalk. The small brown chrysalids, or chrysalis-cases, are very often 
to be found lying in the blackened channel (see fig.). They are dis¬ 
tinguishable by their cylindrical shape from the Hessian Fly chrysalids. 
Specimens of quite unusually bad attack of Chlorops tceniopus were 
sent me on Aug. 80th from Bettinge, Herne Bay, by Mr. W. S. Solomon. 
The ears were mostly still in their sheaths, and the stems were 
short, some seven to nine inches high, one only about six inches in 
height. This Barley was grown after Wheat which had been entirely 
destroyed by “the maggot” in the spring. The observer remarked 
that he had first seen Barley affected in this way four or five years 
ago. Chrysalids and cases taken from the straw were sent with the 
specimens. 
On the BOtli of the month ears of Barley taken from a field one mile 
from Pocklington, York, were sent me by Mr. T. Browne (Market 
Place, Pocklington, York), in which the heads of the Barley were out 
of their sheaths, but the black channels showing where the Chlorops 
grubs had fed were remarkably observable. These may always be 
looked on as a sign of this attack. 
On Aug. 8th Mr. Geo. Cook forwarded specimens of Chlorops- injury 
to Barley from Kitwick Wood, Amp thill, with the remark that this 
attack appeared more destructive than that of the Hessian Fly. He 
noted:—“You will observe that it appears to eat away part of the 
stalk near to the ear, and in several cases I noticed it had eaten the 
unripe kernels of the grain itself. It appears to attack the later-sown 
crops the most, as I do not discover it in the first-sown Barley of my 
friend or my own. The crop in the usual four-course rotation; the 
previous crop, Swedes eaten off with sheep, and the crop before Swedes 
was Wheat.” 
On Aug. 28th the following note of Chlorops attack and estimate of 
damage was sent me by Mr. Biley from Hessle, near Hull:— 
“ I sent you yesterday some stalks of Barley reported to me by two 
or three farmers as badly infested with “Hessian Fly.” I therefore 
drove over on Friday to see the field, and found that it was not 
‘ Hessian Fly,’ as it had begun from the ear and worked down to the 
first joint , and found it had done ten times the amount of damage done by 
the ‘ Hessian Fly.’ I and two other very practical farmers thought the 
crop was damaged fully one-third. I have not yet seen a field damaged 
more than one bushel an acre, simply because the attack came late. The 
