24 CLOVER. 
State, and determined by him as a new species. Observations of the 
life-history were published successively by Dr. Lintner and Professor 
Riley, and in 1881 an excellent and exhaustive paper on this same 
insect was published by Prof. W. Saunders, in the 12tli Annual 
Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario. This paper embodies 
all information up to date on habits and life-history of the insect, 
together with serviceable suggestions as to prevention and remedy. In 
this country also we have come, so far as I am aware, very gradually 
to a certain knowledge of the C. leguminicola being here. 
Notes were sent me which pointed to its possible presence here a 
few years ago, and later on, in the winter of 1888-89, I found speci¬ 
mens of maggots agreeing with descriptions of the Clover-seed Midge 
maggot amongst specimens which were liybernating at the roots of 
Clover, and about the third week in April I reared from these larvae a 
specimen of the true Clover-seed Midge, the C. leguminicola, Lintner. 
It was not, however, until the middle of September, 1890, that I had 
an opportunity of seeing the maggots in their summer condition, 
destroying the seed in the heads of Red Clover exactly as described in 
the American reports. 
On Sept. 16tli, Mr. Alfred Hutley, of Derwards Hall, Booking, 
Braintree, Essex, wrote me that he enclosed a few of the heads of Red 
Clover, which he had purposed saving for seed, but finding, on 
examining a section of the heads, that a maggothad destroyed a large 
proportion of the seed, he had cut it that day for hay, and wished to 
know if there was any remedy or prevention of the attack. 
These maggots were almost indistinguishable, by the naked eye, 
from the well-known “red maggot” of Wheat. They were footless, 
of various sizes, from about the sixteenth to the twelfth of an inch in 
length, and of various shades of orange or somewhat pinkish orange. 
The “ anchor process ” (that is, a horny process beneath the body near 
the head, which varies much inform in different species of Cecidomyia ) 
was deeply cleft or notched at the extremity, as figured at p. 23. 
On tearing open some of the Clover heads I found that, besides the 
“red maggots,” which had left them during transmission, there were 
still some remaining amongst the calyces of the florets, and also a 
great many of the husks were either without seed, or with the seed in 
injured condition. One head amongst the specimens sent, in which 
the seed was rightly developed, contrasted very strongly in regularity 
of form and size of husks containing the seed, and also in uniformity 
of colour, with those where, apparently solely from this infestation, the 
seed within had been ruined. 
The maggots agreed in all noticeable respects with the American 
descriptions, and also in the habit of leaving the flower heads to go 
through their changes in the ground, or on the surface of it, below the 
infested plant. The regular method of life where noticed in America, 
