OF INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
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17. Cephus pygmseus. Corn Sawfly. No notes. 
18. Cecidomyia tritici. Wheat Midge. Red Maggot. Mr. 
Brown, of Knebworth, mentions that the Red Maggot was abundant 
in all the earlier Wheat fields, and did much damage, but little to the 
later crop ; Wheat-ears did not make their appearance until about 
June 29tli, instead of June 12th, which may account for the date of 
the attack. The Rev. Arthur S. Ormerod, writing from Halvergate 
Vicarage, in the East of Norfolk, similarly observes that in a little 
patch of Wheat, a quarter of an acre, sown in the autumn, suffered 
