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discovered about the beginning of October, and was found till 

 the middle of December. The first perfect insects were found 

 in the beginning of December and the last week in November. 

 The imago, from the name, I imagine to be Anthorea leuco- 

 notus, a longicorn, with the elytra covered with very fine down, 

 almost a bloom, and grayish colour, the bases of the elytra 

 being of a reddish chocolate, with a purplish shot on it when 

 newly emerged. The insect, I think, lies torpid after its com- 

 plete transformation till some 'drying day' comes, when it 

 bores its way out; but what happens to it afterwards I have 

 never been able to discover : only three specimens were found 

 on the whole estate, although I offered sixpence each for them, 

 and we were splitting trees with two and three perfect insects 

 in them each. When I speak of a ' drying day,' I mean one 

 of the 'hot winds' from the north-west, which occur in our 

 springhere,taking the thermometer up to 100° in the shade, and 

 considerably affecting insect-life. I noticed especially that 

 the morning after one of these hot winds, on splitting some of 

 the trees, the insects looked so lively that we left off splitting 

 in haste, and gathering the trees together in large heaps burnt 

 them straight off. I said before that only three insects were 

 found at large on the whole plantation by our people ; of these 

 two were in copula on a primary branch of a coffee-tree, the 

 bark of which had been eaten away. This at once suggested 

 to me whether the female before depositing her eggs may not 

 decorticate a small portion of the trunk for the purpose of 

 depositing ? I did not see a single specimen on the wing, and 

 in many cases 1 found the elytra so hard to open that they 

 seemed soldered; nor could 1 by exposure to the sun or any 

 other means ever induce the perfect insects to take wing ; they 

 always crawled. So far 1 have dealt with the insects; I may 

 now add, in reply to some remarks communicated by you in 

 your minutes, that Mr. Keit, the Botanical Curator of our 

 Gardens here, recommended by Dr. Hooker, says that he sees 

 no cause whatever to believe the trees die from any want 

 of vitality, nor do they seem specially affected in any way, 

 yielding good crops and looking well till the borer has very 

 often emerged, after which they languish and die rapidly, f 

 hear from other managers, on strong soils, that very often on 

 one aspect, N. and N.E., they find the developed grub as 

 much as 90 per cent., but that, in the same valley, the opposite 

 slope, S.W. and S.E. (our cold slopes), the insect is 7wt 



