96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Gooch, of Spring Vale, Nalal, on the destruction of the 

 coffee plantations there by a Longicorn beetle. He stated 

 that they were splitting up the diseased stumps, and that 

 only about two per cent were unaffected. The larvae bored 

 into the tree between the forks of the root, working into the 

 heart and feeding on the wood, as high up as nine or twelve 

 inches above ground. A specimen of the insect was exhibited, 

 which proved to be Anthores leuconotus, Pascoe. In the 

 bottle with the larvae were also specimens of Ceroplesis 

 caffra, but the former insect was stated to be the cause of the 

 evil. They had split up some five thousand trees, which 

 were diseased, and the only remedy which they had, as yet, 

 tried, was to apply Stockholm tar to the roots : he would be 

 glad to be advised as to the best mode of exterminating the 

 insects. Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that it was very important 

 to ascertain if the insect was really the original cause, or 

 whether, as he believed, the trees were previously diseased. 

 Mr. Miiller was of opinion that the eggs were laid on sound 

 trees, and he added that the maximum time for the appear- 

 ance of the perfect insect was only about two weeks, and 

 suggested hand-picking as they came out, a practice frequently 

 adopted on the continent of Europe, with regard to Melo- 

 lontha: it was also very desirable to avoid shooting the 

 various species of insectivorous birds, which were frequently 

 destroyed for the sake of their plumage. 



[1 entirely agree with Mr. Miiller in supposing the eggs 

 were laid on sound wood. During fifty years attention to 

 this subject, 1 have never found the larvae of Longicorn beetles 

 in decayed wood, or those of Lamellicorn beetles in sound 

 wood. — Edward Newman.'] 



The West London Entomological Society. — The first exhi- 

 bition of the above Society took place December 2nd and 3rd, 

 1873. The principal rarities were a specimen of Bolitobia 

 fuliginaria, taken in the Blackfriars Station of the London, 

 Chatham and Dover Railway, exhibited by Mr. Dow; some 

 varieties of Cidaria suffumata, by xMr. Seabrook ; a series 

 illustrating the life-history of Orgyia' gonostigma, and a 

 hermaphrodite specimen of Anthocharis Cardamines, by Mr. 

 Wyatt ; specimens of Centra bicuspis and Notodonta Car- 

 melita, from Tilgate Forest, by Mr. Cooke. — E. W. Timmins. 



