214 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Concerning this insect it was remarked that it had beeu 
shown to Dr. Staudinger (now in London) by M. Guenée, 
and it was also unknown to him as European. 
Corozo Nuts destroyed by a Caryoborus.—Mr. Douglas 
exhibited specimens of the Corozo nut (Phytelephas macro- 
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 Guyaquil. 
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 beeu 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 larve in each nut the 
