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farming and the use of Paris green I anticipate that should 

 it effect a settlement in Britain the damage will be greatest 

 where there is careless farming. — G. A. Farini ; Koyal 

 Aquarium, Westminster, August, 1877. 



An Act for Preventing the Introduction and Spreading 

 OF Insects Destructive to Crops.* 



I. — The Lords and others of Her Majesty's Most Honourable 

 Privy Council (in this Act referred to as the Privy Council) 

 may from time to time make such Orders as they think 

 expedient for preventing the introduction into Great Britain 

 of the insect designated as Doryphora decemlineata, and 

 commonly called the Colorado beetle. Any such Order, if 

 the Privy Council think fit, may prohibit or regulate the 

 landing in Great Britain of potatoes, or of the stalks and 

 leaves of jiotatoes, or other vegetable substance, or other 

 article, brought from any place out of Great Britain, the 

 landing whereof may appear to the Privy Council likely to 

 introduce the said insect into Great Britain, and may direct 

 or authorise the destruction of any such article, if landed. If 

 any person lands or attempts to land any article in contra- 

 vention of any Order under this Act, such article shall be 

 liable to be forfeited in like manner as goods the importation 

 whereof is prohibited by the Acts relating to the Customs are 

 liable to be forfeited; and the person so offending shall be 

 liable, according to those Acts, to such penalties as are 

 imposed on persons importing or attempting to import goods 

 the importation whereof is prohibited by those Acts. 



II. — The Privy Council may from time to time make such 

 Orders as they think expedient for preventing the spreading 

 in Great Britain of the said insect. Any such Order may, if 

 the Privy Council think fit, direct or authorise the removal or 

 destruction of any crop of potatoes or other crop or substance 

 on which the said insect in any stage of existence is found, 

 or to or by means of which the said insect may appear to the 

 Privy Council likely to spread, and the entering on any lands 

 for the purpose of such removal or destruction, or for the 

 piupose of any exau)ination or inquiry authorised by the 



* Legislation on entomological sulijects in this country being very 

 exceptional, it niav be well to quote the above extracts from the Act of- 

 railiameut, passed August I4th, 1H77. The portions lelt out are purely 

 technical, ami unintfrestiu'-i to the general reader. — En. 



