The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . k nervure, the subcostal not very distant, anduniting with it before reaching the tip ; the other ner-vure is longitudinal, with a transverse branch at themiddle, extending to the inferior margin, which is eiliated with long hairs. The halteres are dirty yellowish-white ; the club is tolerably large ; the legs are long andnot very slender, they are shining and lioary beneathwith down ; the tibice are a little clubbed at the apex ;the tarsi are 5-jointed, the basal joint being minute, thesecond by far the longest; claws very minute ; pulvillid
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . k nervure, the subcostal not very distant, anduniting with it before reaching the tip ; the other ner-vure is longitudinal, with a transverse branch at themiddle, extending to the inferior margin, which is eiliated with long hairs. The halteres are dirty yellowish-white ; the club is tolerably large ; the legs are long andnot very slender, they are shining and lioary beneathwith down ; the tibice are a little clubbed at the apex ;the tarsi are 5-jointed, the basal joint being minute, thesecond by far the longest; claws very minute ; pulvillidistinct. The female has 13-jointed antennse which arenot longer than the thorax; the joints are subovate andcontracted round the middle, but are not separated bya thread. The abdomen is elongate-ovate and 7-jointed,being flesh-coloured beneath when alive, aud is termi-nated by a long, jointed, telescopiform oviduct (fig. 5),the cross lines showing the natural size ; and fig. 4 ex-hibits the inside of a calyx-leaf witli a larva inclosed ina 1 have elsewhere observed, it is reraailcahle that in-sects of the same natural group should vary so exceed-ingly in their economy; for some of the species formdowny gall-like excrescences leaves of variousplants, as the Ground-ivy, Speedwell, Wormwood, andthe common Campion ; others inhabit the leaves of theScotch Fir and the buds of Sallows, whilst, as we haveshown, some species infest the flowers; aud amongstthese are the Corn-midges, but they form no excres-cences, yet they render the flowers abortive; andthere are a few which are said to inhabit decayed Tulipand Hyacinth roots, aud half decayed cow-duug.—Ruricota. HEATING CUCUMBER AND MELON PITS. Desirous of constructing a pit without the aid ofstable manure for procuring heat, I was tempted. lastwinter (1841), by the account given of the killogie byMr. Forsyth, to construct one after jdan ; and aftersome correspondence with him on the subject. I builtan under-gr
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