COCKCHAFER. 
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clearing off forest pine rubbish, so as to prevent egg-laying; and 
picking off the young shoots by hand when the beetles are seen 
working in them. 
Cockchafer. Melolontha vulgaris , Stephens. 
Grub and Chrysalis of Cockchafer. 
Club of the horn of male (£) and female ( £ ) Cockchafers. 
Any information as to measures that have been found serviceable in 
clearing Chafer grubs from plantations or other ground would be gladly 
received, as they are the cause of great loss in some of our Colonies as well 
as at home. 
On the 20tli of June I received information from Mr. T. J. 
Turnbull, agent to the Earl of Shaftesbury, relatively to the very 
serious injury caused by Cockchafer grubs to young seedling Fir. 
The grubs forwarded were of various stages, some apparently fully 
grown, and the young Firs, which were about 10 or 12 inches high, 
were being destroyed by the gnawing of these grubs removing the 
bark in large patches from the main root of the seedling Fir. 
Mr. Turnbull mentions thousands of*&eros of the Fir plants having 
been destroyed by the grubs in the previous year, and that they 
appeared likely to do as much harm in the present season. “ They 
did not seem to inhabit the black sandy soil, but made their home in 
the stronger clay loam.” 
No remedy appears to be known in cases like this excepting 
encouragement of rooks. 
Mr. Malcolm Dunn, writing from Dalkeith, says—“We suffer 
very little in Scotland from the attack of the Cockchafer grub, and it 
seldom touches the roots of Pines with us. About 18 years ago, 
whilst I was living at Eardiston, in Worcestershire, we had a young 
Pine plantation, mostly Scots Fir, very badly injured by the grub of 
the common Cockchafer, which devoured the roots close to the collar, 
causing the trees to turn yellow, and many of them died. The 
