JOURNAL 



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Vol. I. OCTOBER, 1892. No. 



REPORT OF CLUB MEETINGS. 



7th June, 1892. 



Present: Messrs. Caracciolo (President), Devenish, Carmod}', 

 Ilobson, Potter, Scott, Mole, Urich, Broadway. Petersen, Hewlett, 

 Eagle, Wilson, ^Murray and Taitt (Secretary). The following 

 gentlemen were elected members of the Club : Hon. H. Fowler, 

 Hon. J. E. Tanner, Messrs. Erick Bock, F. J. Maingot, J. G. 

 lieed, Dr. A. Lota, Messrs. L. de A'erteuil, K. Dumoret and C. 

 W. Meaden (country member). Different amendments to Rules 

 were discussed and agreed to. Mr. Broadway proposed that the 

 office of Patron be created and that the Governor be asked to 

 fill it, seconded by Mr. Potter and carried unanimously. 

 His Excellency Sir F. N. Broome was thereupon iinanimously 

 elected Patron of the Club. Mr. Mole read the draft report of 

 the committee appointed to investigate the sugar-cane borer. 

 A long discussion ensued on it and it was decided that it should 

 be published in the Journal. The President having to leave at 

 this stage the chair was taken by Mr. Syl. Devenish. M A. The 

 Secretary exhibited, on behalf of the President, a fcAv larva? of 

 the Lttcilia ho^nlulcorax sent by Dr. Lota, who extracted them 

 frona the nose of a lady here. These larva; are produced by the 

 above fly, and commit great ravages in Cayenne among the con- 

 victs. Two beetles, one a Caldiidra pahiuLniiH, the other 

 Spheaoplionis heiuiptcnis, were sent by Mr. Ludovic de Yerteuil, 

 with the information that these beetles were found in the sugar- 

 cane, which they entered from the roots. A black ant with two 



