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STRAWBERRY. 
Otiorhynclii lay their eggs in the ground, and their maggots feed 
on roots and turn to chrysalids in the ground. Where it is possible 
to apply a good quantity of gas-lime I have found it answer to clear 
out the maggots, as well as it could be managed, and put gas-lime as 
a coating. In the case of young trees a layer might, I believe, he 
safely put, say for a fortnight, on ground supposed to be infested, and 
of which the uppermost four to six inches had been turned to the top. 
All the maggots and chrysalids thus buried in the gas-lime would be 
killed, and the material could be removed if too thickly laid on to 
remain safely. Lime or quick-lime does little good in cases like this 
compared to the caustic gas-lime, which kills the soft maggots if it 
touches them, or poisons them by the dissolved fluid running on the 
first rain, from it into the infested ground. 
STRAWBERRY. 
Strawberry-leaf Button-Moth. Peronea ? comariana , Zell. ; 
P. ? comparand, Hub. 
Peronea (? comariana).* 
Moth, and caterpillar hanging from leaf by thread. (Pig. drawn by Dr. Ellis.) 
* The Peroneas form a genus of exceedingly small moths somewhat uncertain in 
distinguishing points. The above specimen having been variously named by two 
skilled authorities, I give both names to save possibility of error as to species. 
