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. 
[| have preferred to give the translation of this paper, 
which appeared in ‘ Nature’ of April 20th, to the original 
French, which I regularly receive from Brussels, through the 
courtesy of the secretary, Mons. A. de Born.— E. Newman. |] 
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 | 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 
beetles 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, during 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 avy 
other hop-garden near, although there are many other large 
hop-gardens in close proximity. Three years ago black- 
curraut 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.” J 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. I follow, and 
