During the autumn a good many caterpillars of the Large 
Cabbage Butterfly appeared on a bed of Broccoli in my garden near 
Islewortli, which I found were most conveniently got rid of by hand¬ 
picking, otherwise these caterpillars are not mentioned as having been 
injurious during the past season. 
Cabbage-root Fly. Anthomyia floralis, Fallen. 
1, Larva of Anthomyia Brassicce; 2 and 3, pup®, nat. size and mag.; 4, A. radicum, 
mag. ; 5, nat. size; 6-9, A. tuberosa , larva and fly, mag. and nat. size. 
During 1881 much damage was done by Cabbage maggot in 
Scotland, and as several of the different kinds of maggots infesting 
Cabbage roots are so much alike that it is scarcely if at all possible to 
tell the difference between them, and the flies which they develop into 
have also a strong resemblance to each other, a doubt arose how many 
kinds might be at work. 
Early in the past summer, therefore, Mr. Malcolm Dunn forwarded 
specimens of maggots from Cauliflower roots to Mr. R. H. Meade, 
Bradford, who after rearing them to development, favoured me with 
the information that they were the Anthomyia floralis of Fallen (a 
small fly variously marked with black and gray), of which the male 
closely resembles the figure given above at 4 of A. radicum. 
This kind ( A . floralis ), known in Germany as the Radish Fly, is 
recorded as having been found in the maggot stage in the roots of 
the common garden Radish, a circumstance which may explain attack 
occurring to Cabbage roots on ground where Radishes have been 
extensively grown It was also reared by Mr. Meade this year from 
maggots found in earth round partly-decayed Clover roots. Remedies 
found serviceable, in cases where it attacks Cabbage, were mentioned 
in the Report for 1881, pp. 8—10. 
