136 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., ON ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. 
which they are found. The beetles burrow in the ground, and the grubs 
they produce are white, and of different sizes, according to the size of the 
parent beetle. These grubs first of all eat the roots of the tea-plants, and 
then they attack the upper part. The only way in which we could get rid 
of them was by setting women and children to dig them up and collect 
them. They lift up the grass as one would raise a sheet or table-cloth, and 
underneath they find the grubs as thick together as plums in a plum-pudding. 
The Coarrman.—There is no doubt that the locusts prefer some plants to 
others ; and in all the invasions of these insects I have known, they have 
gone on in regular succession, although they have always eaten the vines last. 
They seemed to me to have great objection to these, probably because of 
the acid in the leaves. The locust-trees they never ate at all, but went 
away and left them untouched. 
Rev. J. J. Coxneap, M.A.—I think we ought to express our thanks to 
Dr. Walker for his able and interesting paper. He has handled his subject 
in such a way as to show how highly valuable are careful observations such 
as he has been able to make in Palestine and other parts of the East. What 
struck me most forcibly in the paper was that the commonest species of 
butterflies, such as those with which we in England, and Europe generally, 
are familiar, are more abundant in those parts of the world than any 
other particular species which is there met with. 
Rev. Dr. WaLKer.—Locusts, as far as I am aware, differ from all other 
insects in this respect, that they grow after they have reached the mature 
stage. It isa characteristic of other insects that, when no longer in the 
larva state, they do not increase in size ; but the locust increases from a very 
small size to a very large one after it has reached the perfect stage. 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
