Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2009
It has been well known since the studies of Taschenberg (1864–1872) that the larvae of Leptohylemyia coarctata, Fall., attack wheat and rye. The damage due to this fly has been observed many times in almost all European countries, and many papers have been devoted to its life-history. Of these papers the most important are those of E. Ormerod (1882–1895), S. Rostrup (1905–1911), T. Hedlund (1906- 1907), P. Marchal (1909) and finally the recent work of Kurdjumov (1914).
* The reader is referred to this paper (in Russian) for full references and for a critical examination of many papers dealing with this insect. Kurdjumov, N.V.: Adia genitalis, Schnabl, and Leptohylemyia coarctata, Fall., Reports of the Agricult. Exper. Station of Poltava, Branch of Agric. Entomol., 1914, No. 21, part ix., pp. 1–43, [Abstracted in Rev. Appl. Ent. ii, 1914, p. 250.]Google Scholar
* See: Keilin, D.. Recherches sur les Anthomyides à larves carnivores. Parasitology, ix, no. 3.Google Scholar
† I am much indebted to Messrs. C. Warburton and F. R. Petherbridge for the larvae of Leptohylemyia coarctata herein referred to.