. The book of the garden. Gardening. white-line brown-eyed moth. Natural size. feet are greyish brown, yellow-ringed below ; the fore wings have no connected cross lines; the round middle spot is surrounded with white; the kidney spot is orange colour in the shape of a lunule ; very delicate white and black dots are seen on the watered band ; the fringes are deeply toothed, bordered by a faint white line; the under wings are ochre yellow, or dirty white, with darker shades towards the whitish fringes. The reddish or yellowish brown cater- pillar has on the back, and on each side, a dark stripe
. The book of the garden. Gardening. white-line brown-eyed moth. Natural size. feet are greyish brown, yellow-ringed below ; the fore wings have no connected cross lines; the round middle spot is surrounded with white; the kidney spot is orange colour in the shape of a lunule ; very delicate white and black dots are seen on the watered band ; the fringes are deeply toothed, bordered by a faint white line; the under wings are ochre yellow, or dirty white, with darker shades towards the whitish fringes. The reddish or yellowish brown cater- pillar has on the back, and on each side, a dark stripe, and a whitish one nearly over the feet; the under side and feet are light brown ; it is dotted with black between the dark stripes. When young, and sometimes also when fully grown, the ground colour is green. The pupa is shining reddish brown, and remains in the earth during ;—Kollar. It feeds upon the cabbage, turnip, and lettuce, and is best destroyed by sprinkling caustic lime over the plants as soon as the caterpillar appears, repeat- ing the operation while they continue to appear. Pontia brassicce, fig. 44 ; Pontia rapce, fig. 46 ; and Chrysomela betulce, are all more or less inju- rious to turnip crops, feeding on the leaves. They are, however, kept in check by the ichneu- mons Microgaster glomeratus and Pimpla instiga- tor, and by the cynips Pteromatus brassico? and P. pontia. Anthomyia gnava, in its maggot state, attacks turnips during autumn, forming cavities in the bulbs. The female fly is ash-coloured, with a black line down the body, broadest at the base, and is nearly \ of an inch in length, and \ an inch in expanse. The male fly has a black trunk and legs; body linear, of the same colour as the female, with testaceous bands and black dorsal spots. Anthomyia brassicat (cabbage-fly), cum of some entomologists, fig. 79. When the maggots attack the roots of the cabbage, the roots " become enlarged and carious, the mag- gots revelling i
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