OF INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
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that of very inferior quality. The Wheat was March-sown, part after 
Turnips, part on a Clover stubble. The land is naturally poor and 
light, hut has been marled and heavily caked. The application to 
each acre would average 6 cwt. of cake, two-thirds linseed and one- 
tliird decorticated cotton-cake, consumed by sheep on the ground. 
The weather during the season is noted as having been the wettest on 
record, and the crop as six weeks later than in average seasons. 
Mr. Mosley also mentions that the Wheat Aphis literally swarmed at 
Thornhill, near Dewsbury, Yorkshire, both on Wheat and Barley, 
doing much injury. 
21. Cossus Ligniperda. Goat Moth. Ogger, or Auger, Worm 
(Scottice). No notes of remedies beyond the well-known method of 
extracting the larvae with a wire. 
22. Zeuzera ^Isculi. Leopard Moth. More common than 
usual at Maldon. During the severe weather of the winter a few 
specimens of larvae were brought to me in small boughs, or rather in 
thick twigs, at Isleworth, quite uninjured by cold. 
23. Bombyx Neustria. Lackey Moth. No observations, 
excepting of its complete absence at Maldon, where in the previous 
year it had appeared in such enormous quantities that Mr. Fitch had his 
Apple trees hand-picked, and the larvae collected in pails and scalded. 
24. Yponomeuta Padellus. Small Ermine Moth. The larvae 
injurious on Apple trees, at Chichester, about July 4tli. 
