190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
discovered about the beginning of October, and was found till 
the middle of December. The first perfect insects were found 
in the beginning of December and the last week in November. 
The imago, from the name, I imagine to be Anthorea leuco- 
notus, a longicorn, with the elytra covered with very fine down, 
almost a bloom, and grayish colour, the bases of the elytra 
being of a reddish chocolate, with a purplish shot on it when 
newly emerged. The insect, I think, lies torpid after its com- 
plete transformation till some ‘drying day’ comes, when it 
bores its way out; but what happens to it afterwards I have 
never been able to discover: only three specimens were found 
on the whole estate, although I offered sixpence each for them, 
and we were splitting trees with two and three perfect insects 
in them each. When I speak of a ‘ drying day,’ I mean one 
of the ‘hot winds’ from the north-west, which occur in our 
spring here, taking the thermometer up to 100° in the shade, and 
considerably affecting insect-life. 1 noticed especially that 
the morning after one of these hot winds, on splitting some of 
the trees, the insects looked so lively that we left off splitting 
in haste, and gathering the trees together in large heaps burnt 
them straight off. I said before that only three insects were 
found at large on the whole plantation by our people; of these 
two were 77 copula on a primary branch of a coffee-tree, the 
bark of which had been eaten away. This at once suggested 
to me whether the female before depositing her eggs may not 
decorticate a small portion of the trunk for the purpose of 
depositing? I did not see a single specimen on the wing, and 
in many cases I found the elytra so hard‘to open that they 
seemed soldered; nor could 1 by exposure to the sun or any 
other means ever induce the perfect insects to take wing ; they 
always crawled. So far I have dealt with the insects; I may 
now add, in reply to some remarks communicated by you in 
your minutes, that Mr. Keit, the Botanical Curator of our 
Gardens here, recommended by Dr. Hooker, says that he sees 
no cause whatever to believe the trees die from any want 
of vitality, nor do they seem specially affected in any way, 
yielding good crops and looking well till the borer has very 
often emerged, after which they languish and die rapidly. I 
hear from other managers, on strong soils, that very often on 
one aspect, N. and N.E., they find the developed grub as 
much as 90 per cent., but that, in the same valley, the opposite 
slope, S.W. and 8.E. (our cold slopes), the insect is not 
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