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no reports, no verbosity, but snnimary and rapid execution, not only upon the insect 

 and its eggs, but upon the potatoes themselves, which should be destroyed radically 

 (with idemnification of the injured cultivators) in those places were the pest appears, 

 within a stated radius. 



If the insects are destroyed witli the plants that carry them, those that escape 

 destruction in this way will perish from hmiger. Further, if the culture of potatoes 

 and other Solanacece (tomato and tobacco) be forbidden within a stated district for 

 a year or two, and the Solamim dulcamara and nigra be carefully extirpated, all 

 disaster to our agricvdture will be prevented. 



In France, where another insect pest attacks the vine, and even menaces 

 its annihilation, it would have been good had the evil been abruptly stopped at its 

 origin, and to-day one would not have regretted an indemnity well placed at the 

 commencement, not even if it amounted to several hundred thousand francs. In 

 place of that, commissions have been named without nimiber, all kinds of remedies 

 have been tried, volumes and pamphlets enough to fill a library have been written, 

 much money has been spent, much time lost, &c., and the Phylloxera has none the 

 less continued its work. It now covers nearly all the departments in which the vine 

 is cultivated, threatening the complete annihilation (unless unexpected help is 

 obtained) of one of the principal sources of the wealth of our neighbours. — 

 A. Pretjdhomme de Bokre, in the Bulletin de la Societe Linneenne de Bruxelles, 

 1875. 



[We have translated the above (from a separate pamphlet-form) as cojitaining 

 some very sensible observations upon a subject that is now attracting general 

 attention in Europe. Later on, we hope to reproduce a paper by a well-known 

 English Colcopterist. Up to the present, the importation of potatoes from America 

 has been forbidden by France, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Russia, and Spain. 

 Great Britain has contented itself by a species of surveillance. — Eds.]. 



Occurrence in Britain of Cladins DriiUcBi, Dahlbom. — To the list of the British 

 species of Cladius given in Vol. xi, p. 253, may now be added Cladius (Priophorus) 

 Brullcei, Dahlbom, which I have reared from larva? found last autumn in Cadder 

 Wilderness, feeding on Rubiis idaiis. 



The following is a description of the full-fed larva. 



Ilead deep shining black. Feet and elaspers white. Upper part of the body 

 to the spiracles deep brownish rather glistening black ; the sides below the spiracles 

 glistening wliite. The base of the 2nd and the anal segment white. As usual with 

 the larvse of this genus, the body is covered with tubercles, from wliich proceed long 

 hairs. Length about 9 — 10 lines. 



In its habits and pupation the larva does not differ from C. padi. Dahlbom 

 mentions Rubnafrulicosus as the food-plant. — P.Cameron, Jun., 13G, West Graham 

 Street, Glasgow : 10^ June, 1875. 



Note on the gall of Aphilothi-ix 7-adicis. — On 20th May I noticed, at Ardlui, 

 Loch Lomond, some fresh galls of Aphilothrix radicis on the trunks of oaks, at a 



