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will be of interest to notice whether it appears again to any great 
extent in the coming season. Mr. Hart mentions it as in great 
numbers on his Corn at Kingsnorth, Kent, on June 19tli, but it was 
not noticeably injurious. Mr. Fitch notes this Sawfly as being more 
numerous than he ever knew it. At the end of June (when at all 
bright between the frequent storms) almost every buttercup flower 
had its Cephus visitor, and often two or three in one bloom, but no 
larvae or traces of larval presence were noticeable. 
Cecidomyia tritici. 
I _ 10 . Infested floret, Wheat Midge, larva and pupa, natural size and magnified, 
and antennae, magnified. 11 & 14 and 13 & 12. Parasite Flies, natural size 
and magnified. 
18. Cecidomyia tritici. Wheat Midge; Red Maggot. Mr. Hart 
first noticed this Fly on June 25th, and the “Red Maggot” in the 
Wheat-ears on July 9tli; and he considered that although the 
principal cause of the failure of the Wheat crops at Kingsnorth, Kent, 
was from mildew, that part of it must be attributed to the “Red 
Maggots.” These were found by Mr. Hart to be common on all his 
Wheat, sometimes as many as a dozen being on one grain, and the 
attack was by far the worst that had occurred for some years; last 
year scarcely one Maggot was observable. At Maldon, in Essex, 
these Red Maggots were most noticed by Mr. Fitch from the 10th to 
the 20th of July, but little injury was caused by them. Their absence 
was attributable to the wet and stormy July, this being the season 
when the parent Flies are active and busy ovipositing. 
