Reports to various Correspondents. 1 19 



cTucifcTse) ; the Diamond-back Moth {Flutdla maculipennis) and the 

 Silvery-Y Moth (Plusia gamma). 



The Aphides are in the hands of the Department of Agriculture 

 of the United States. The Coccida', which aie dealt with separately, 

 have been examined by Mi". Robert Newstead, and a new species is 

 described (vide Appendix), yiv. Fletrher is issuing? an account of 

 the life-history of the Egyptian pests. 



Insect Pests of the West Indies. 



Further names of insects of economic importance in the West 

 Indies have been sent since tlu^ First Report on Economio Zoology 

 was issued as follows : — 



Chrysopa sp. (being e.va mined). 

 Megilla tnaculala var., do fleer. 

 Dilophonofa eJJo, Linn. 

 Tomariis bUHhercalatnn, Benn. 

 Three sp. ? of Platypus. 



Exochoinus nitidulna. Fab. 

 (Jlietocnema amazanicun, I>;d y. 

 Epitrix parruJa, Pali. 

 (Joryfhaka moiutrrJia, Stal. 

 Sryntvus ochroderns, Muls. 



GROUP F. 



SUB-GEOUP A. ANIMALS WHICH CONCERN MAN AS 

 BEING DESTRUCTIVE TO HIS WORKED-UR PRODUCTS 

 OF ART AND INDUSTRY, SUCH AS HIS VARIOUS 

 WORKS, BUILDIN(JS, LARGER CONSTRUCTIONS AND 

 HABITATIONS. 



Termites destroying Houses in the Basses- 

 Pyrenees. 



Information has been sent to C. Drummond Wolff, Esq., of 

 Caplanue, Billere, Pan, Basses-Pyrenees, who wrote regarding the 

 best plans to adopt to save certain of his houses that were being 

 destroyed by White Ants. " I have," he says, " three houses here 

 standing in about 18 acres of ground. We have recently discovered 

 that one of them is infested with Termites (Wlnte Ants), and all the 

 ^\•oodwork is so much dust. We are ad\ised to pull down tlie liouse, 

 but that would mean losing some £300 a year. Nobody seems to 

 know bow to destroy them. I suggested corrosive sublimati^, but 

 1 do not know bow to umke it jienetrate tliroughout, if, indeed, that 

 is eliicacious.' 



