58 CORN. 
Barley (specimens sent) was sown late; tlie previous crop Turnip , and 
very good ; one or two other late pieces of Barley are so infested.” 
On Aug. 5tli specimens of a remarkably bad attack of Chlorops 
tceniopus were forwarded to me from Barley at Bopley, near Alresford, 
Hants, by Mr. J. W. Snelling, Winchester. The ear in some instances 
was hardly freed from the sheath, and the stem above the highest knot 
was only from about If to 2f inches long. The ears were stunted and 
injured, and the direct injury from the maggot gnawing usually 
affecting the lowest part of the ear, or as much as halfway up. 
From the above returns it appears that the attack was present in 
Hampshire and Kent; in Essex, Herts, Beds., Cambridgeshire, 
Leicestershire, and on the border of Leicester and Warwickshire; 
also in Northamptonshire and in Yorkshire; and it was also present 
in Cheshire. Only one note was sent me of presence in Scotland, and 
this was in Ayrshire. 
The specimens sent me showed various degrees of injury; as the 
growth being stopped at six to nine inches high ; the ear still muffled 
in the sheath ; the uppermost joint of the stem stunted to about 
two inches in length, the base of the ear and sometimes half of the 
lower part being destroyed by the maggot; and (constantly) the 
gnawed and blackened channel where the Chlorops maggot had eaten 
its way down from the ear to the uppermost knot was clearly noticeable. 
Looking at the remarks as to amount of injury sent in by observers, 
the highest estimates were of more than half stopped in growth, and of 
one-tliird of the attacked Barley; also it was noted as doing great 
damage to Barley,—materially lessening the chance of a crop,—and as 
appearing more destructive than Hessian Fly. 
This is a kind of attack in which it would be very useful if the 
sufferers from it would give particulars of the nature of the land on 
which it occurred, most especially whether it was found in patches in 
the fields, and whether these patches, large or small, were lower-lying 
than the rest of the land. Where I have most observed this attack in 
former years such has been the case. I have seen it on an acre or 
more forming a kind of hollow; also near Isleworth in a low-lying 
portion of a field which had not been properly drained when thrown 
into cultivation after the surface-layer of brick-earth had been removed. 
It is also said to occur along water-furrows, and in the very bad case 
of Chlorops attack which occurred last year at High Legh, Cheshire, 
the part of the field from which specimens were sent me was reported 
as low-lying and damp. This attack deserves special mention. 
On Oct. 8th I was favoured by a communication from Mr. B. 
Kendrick, 38, Golborne Street, Warrington (Hon. Curator for Ento¬ 
mology, &c., of the Warrington Museum), relatively to severe damage 
to Barley at High Legh, Cheshire, which had been erroneously 
attributed to Hessian Fly. 
