134 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



yellowish colour should be preferred and combined in every 

 arrangement of an entomological room. Moreover, the cloths 

 that cover the show-cases ought to be yellow rather than 

 green, and, what is important and indispensable, the window- 

 blinds ought to be absolutely yellow. 



[I have preferred to give the translation of this paper, 

 which appeared in ' Nature' of April 20lh, to the original 

 French, which I regularly receive from Brussels, through the 

 courtesy of the secretary, Mons. A. de Born. — E. NewmanJ] 



Answers to Correspondents. 



E. R. Sheppard. — The Hop Weevil. — A friend of mine, a 

 farmer in North Kent, has asked me to get named for him 

 the beetles, which I send you by this post. They have been 

 doing terrible damage in his hop gardens. I send you a 

 short account of what he told me concerning them: — "The 

 beetle appears at dusk in the evening; it eats the hop-bine 

 in small holes; sometimes eats the outside skin the whole 

 length of the shoot. They first appeared two years ago; 

 this being the third year of their appearance. They are more 

 numerous this year ; sometimes as many as fifteen of these 

 beeiles being found on one hop-shoot at a time. They bury 

 themselves about two inches and a half in the mould, in the 

 middle of the hop-stool, dining the day lying dormant on 

 their backs. They are round every hop-stool in a garden of 

 four acres of hops, and they have commenced to advance to 

 another adjoining hop-garden. They were never seen before 

 in the neighbourhood. They have not been seen in any 

 other hop-garden near, although there are many other large 

 hop-gardens in close proximity. Three years ago black- 

 currant bushes were planted in between the hops, but these 

 were subsequently removed, and then the beetles appeared. 

 The hop-garden is by the side of Darenth Wood." 1 send you 

 with the beetles pieces of the hop-shoots, eaten into holes by 

 these destructive insects. I am not a collector of beetles 

 myself, hence my taking the liberty of sending them to you, 

 thinking that you would kindly name them for me ; and if 

 you could inform me what remedy would be best to adopt 

 for their destruction I shall be much obliged. 1 follow, and 



