•214 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Concerning this insect it was reraarked that it had been 

 shown to Dr. Staudinger (now in London) by M. Guenee, 

 and it was also unknown to him as European. 



Corozo Nuts destroyed by a Caryohorus. — Mr. Douglas 

 exhibited specimens of the Corozo nut (Phytelephas raacro- 

 carpa), the vegetable-ivory of commerce, of which the 

 interiors were entirely eaten away by a species of Caryoborus 

 (one of the Bruchides). A specimen of the beetle was shown 

 with nuts, from the London Docks, which had been recently 

 imported from Guyaqnil. 



Ravages of Locusts in Spain. — The Secretary read a letter 

 he had received from the Foreign Office Department, enclosing 

 a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Madrid relative to 

 the steps taken to check the ravages of the locust in Spain. 

 It appeared that considerable apprehension had been felt in 

 many parts of Spain that the crops of various kinds would 

 suffer greatly this year from the locust; and the Cortes had 

 already voted a large sum to enable the Government to take 

 measures to prevent this calamity; and by a circular addressed 

 to the Provincial Governors by the Minister of 'Fomento,' 

 published in the Official Gazette, they were directed to make 

 use of the military forces, stationed within their respective 

 districts, to aid the rural population in this object. It was 

 stated that thirteen provinces were threatened with this 

 plague. 



June 7, 1876. 



Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c.. President, in the 

 chair. 



The Destruction of Corozo Nuts by a Caryoborus. — Mr. 

 Douglas made some further remarks on the " Corozo nuts," 

 known as vegetable ivory, exhibited by him at the last 

 meeting, which were attacked by a beetle belonging to the 

 genus Caryoborus. The attention of the officials of the Dock 

 Company had been drawn to the serious loss of weight that 

 would be found when the nuts were to be delivered, and they 

 were anxious to ascertain if there was any mode of arresting 

 their depredations, and whether the beetles lived and bred 

 among dried nuts, or entered the kernel in an earlier stage. 

 It was suggested that the mischief originated in the parent 

 beetles laying their eggs in the nuts when still in a green or 

 soft state, and as there were several larva? in each nut the 



