96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Gooch, of Spring Vale, Natal, on the destruction of the 
coffee plantations there by a Longicorn beetle. He stated 
that they were splitting up the diseased stumps, and that 
only about two per cent were unaffected. The larve bored 
into the tree between the forks of the root, working into the 
heart and feeding on the wood, as high up as nine or twelve 
inches above ground. A specimen of the insect was exhibited, 
which proved to be Anthores leuconotus, Pascoe. In the 
bottle with the larve were also specimens of Ceroplesis 
caffra, but the former insect was stated to be the cause of the 
evil. They had split up some five thousand ‘trees, which 
were diseased, and the only remedy which they had, as yet, 
tried, was to apply Stockholm tar to the roots: he would be 
glad to be advised as to the best mode of exterminating the 
insects. Mr. M‘Lachlan remarked that it was very important 
to ascertain if the insect was really the original cause, or 
whether, as he believed, the trees were previously diseased. 
Mr. Miiller was of opinion that the eggs were laid on sound 
trees, and he added that the maximum time for the appear- 
ance of the perfect insect was only about two weeks, and 
suggested hand-picking as they came out, a practice frequently 
adopted on the continent of Europe, with regard to Melo- 
lontha: it was also very desirable to avoid shooting the 
various species of insectivorous birds, which were frequently 
destroyed for the sake of their plumage. 
[I entirely agree with Mr. Miiller in supposing the eggs 
were laid on sound wood. During fifty years attention to 
this subject, I have never found the larve of Longicorn beetles 
in decayed wood, or those of Lamellicorn beetles in sound 
wood.— Edward Newman.] 
The West London Entomological Society.—The first exhi- 
bition of the above Society took place December 2nd and 3rd, 
1873. ‘The principal rarities were a specimen of Bolitobia 
fuliginaria, taken in the Blackfriars Station of the London, 
Chatham and Dover Railway, exhibited by Mr. Dow; some 
varieties of Cidaria suffumata, by Mr. Seabrook; a series 
illustrating the life-history of Orgyia gonostigma, and a 
hermaphrodite specimen of Anthocharis Cardamines, by Mr. 
Wyatt; specimens of Cerura bicuspis and Notodonta Car- 
melita, from Tilgate Forest, by Mr. Cooke.—Z. W. Timmins. 
