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esting, he said, to watch the males and females during the time 

 of oviposition. Both sexes, to all appearances, perform the same 

 act, the female boring a hole in the acorn in which to place the 

 eggs, the male feeding upon the acorn from the hole bored by 

 the female. In reply to a question asked by Mr. Morris, Mr. 

 Schwarz said that the Chestnut Weevil is not so abundant in the 

 North as in the South. Dr. Gill spoke of a larva of a beetle be 

 longing to the family Calandridse, occurring in Trinidad, which 

 was there considered a great delicacy by the natives. 



Prof. Hopkins exhibited specimens of a Scolytid beetle, sent 

 to him from South Africa under the name Xyloterus lineatus, 

 and an example of its work. This insect, he said, is not this 

 species but a new one, and also represents a new genus which he 

 has called Scolytoplatypus. It was named by him from specimens 

 occurring in Japan, and he thinks that it has been introduced into 

 South Africa from that country. 



Prof. Johnson reported two cases of serious injury done by 

 the White Ant ( Termes flavipes Kollar) in the city of Baltimore. 

 The first case mentioned was in a church. The supporting posts 

 and some of the woodwork above had been very extensively 

 honey-combed by the termites, necessitating a thorough disinfec 

 tion with carbon bisulphide and more substantial rebuilding at a 

 cost of $ i, 800. The other and still more serious case of the same 

 nature was in a private residence. Here the insects had worked 

 through three floors and into the cherry library cases on the third 

 floor, completely riddling the timbers throughout. Prof. John 

 son exhibited a portion of a timber taken from the house, show 

 ing the work of the termites. Similar but less destructive cases, 

 such as that in the Ohio State University and those recorded by 

 Dr. Hagen in New England, were mentioned. Mr. Ashmead 

 expressed surprise that the termite is so prevalent and so exten 

 sively injurious as far north as Baltimore. He spoke of an in 

 stance of rapid and enormous destruction by termites in the Philip 

 pines, where a large quantity of pine lumber from the United 

 States, stored there by our Government, was completely destroyed 

 in less than three months. Mr. Schwarz stated that the true 

 queen of T. flavipes has never been found, but that in every case 

 so reported it has proved to be the supplementary queen. These 

 supplementary queens are nearly larviform, and are short-lived ; 



