88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



23. Extract letter from Lord Torrington to the Marq. of C, dated 

 Brussels, July 28, 1788 ; two and a quarter pages. 



24. Letter from Mr. Walpole to the M. of C, with copies of two in- 

 closures, dated Manheim, Feb. 21, 1789; two pages. 



25. Extract letter from Mr. Heathcote to the M. of C, with two in- 

 closures, dated Bonn, Feb. 16, 1789 ; one and a quarter pages. 



26. Report of Sir Joseph Banks upon the above correspondence, and 

 information, dated 2nd March, 1789 ; two and a half pages. 



[He refers at the end to the following books : Histoire d'un Insecte 

 qui de'vore les grains de I'Angoumois, par MM. Du Hamel & Tillet, Paris, 

 1762, i2mo.; Memoire sur I'accident que les Bles de la Recolte de cette 

 Annee ont Eprouve en Poitou, etc., par MM. Parmentier & Cadet de 

 Vaux, Paris, 17S5, 8vo. On Root-worms, by M. Bierkander, published in 

 the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, 1777. 

 Delia Malattie del grano in Erba, del Conte Francesco Ginanni, Pesaro, 

 1759, 4to. Mezzi per distrugerei Vermi che rodono il grano in Erba, 

 etc., Abbate Bonaventura Corti. Printed in Scelta di Opuscoli. inter- 

 essanti, vol. 34, p. 3.] 



27. Letter from Mr. Bond to the Marq. of C, with copy of inclosure, 

 dated Philadelphia, November 3, 1788; one and two-thirds pages. 



28. Letter from Mr. Bond to the Marq. of C„ dated Philadelphia, 

 Jan. 20, 1789; I page. 



29. Extract letter from Sir Joseph Temple to the M. of C, with two 

 inclosures, dated New York, Feb. 21, 1789 ; one and a quarter pages. 



30. Extract letter from Mr. Miller to the M. of C, dated Charles 

 Town, 12th Feb., 1789; quarter page. 



I have compared with this index the statements given in the Encycl. 

 Britan. (Dobson's Edit, is quoted) and have noted by the single numbers 

 what I believed to be useful for a better understanding. 



As of late years (E. B. p. 490) great quantities of wheat were exported 

 from America into Britain, it became an object worthy of the attention of 

 Government to consider how far it was proper to allow of such importa- 

 tion, lest this destructive insect might be brought along with the grain. 



No. I. Mr. Bond* informed that there was a design to export wheat 

 from Philadelphia to England, that the fly had made great depredations, 



* This Mr, Bond is not the Dr. Bond quoted before in the minutes of the Araer, 

 Philosoph, Soc. I cannot find out anything more about him, 



