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(11.) Fish-insects {Lepisma) from various places, injuring 

 photograph, altar cloth, on picture, and on 

 palliasses. 



(12.) Underground lead-covered electric cable injured, 

 apparently by White- ants (Termites) in Hong Kong. 

 A somewhat similar question was submitted re- 

 specting overhead telegraph cables. In this case 

 the injury seemed to be due to lightning. 



(13.) Cocoa-nut trees greatly damaged by beetles (Calan- 

 dra stigmaticollis and Melittomma insular e) in 

 the Seychelles. 



(14.) Wooden bread platters pierced by small beetles 

 [Lyctus canaliculatus). 



(15.) Caterpillars of a butterfly (Rhopalocampsa juno), 

 very injurious to cocoa-nut palms. Sent for deter- 

 mination from Aburi, Gold Coast. 



(16.) Specimens of a Long-horned Locust (Phaneroptera 

 4>-punctata) in a vinery near Chester ; imported. 



(17.) LarviB of a Longicorn Beetle {Macrotoma natala), 

 damaging hardwood timber used in a temporary 

 railway bridge in British Central Africa. 



(18.) Live Cockroaches imported from West Indies in 

 bananas, Nyctehara tenehrosa, and Periplaneta 

 americana from Scarborough. 



(19.) Hothouse grapes injured by a fly {Drosoijhila 

 melanogaster) near Huddersfield. 



(20.) Cigarettes badly injured by a small beetle {Lasio- 

 derma tectacea) ; sent by a London firm. 



E. Ray Lankester, 

 British Museum (Natural History), Director. 



2 February 190G. 



