So large an amount of literare i is growing up round ‘thie. insec ct, and 
so much of it is inaccessible, that it is 
i 7) PUR l 
. Chemistry and Agriculture, Barbados (18, 19); Mr. G. W. Smith, - 
.. Curator 4i the Botanie Garden, Grenada, (20, 21), and other gentlemen, - 
. . Excellent specimens of various insects and specimens of canes have been. 
received from Mr. J. R. Bovell, F.C.S., Superintendent of the Botanical- 
Station at Barbados; from Mr. J. H, Hart, — S. and from Mr. G. 
NW. "e E of Grenada. 
rtant report (26) has just been iud by a committee of the - 
B. report (26) 
: Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club, which h 
not be confused with the committee appointed by the Centrai Board of - 
e of that ees which has also deliberated on this question. 
nt 
on reports and exported Lien and not on personal observation 
.the injur 
— Miss Ormerod has ver kindly informed me that she has in preparation 
a pamphlet for secs mi Ot. I have not t yet vu the. opp 
tay e the information and yaar it, w 

epum of great service to me in writing this account, as 
devoted à much time and attention to the. subject. | 
2 fibsomicir. 
; Thi abl 
 inthe tropes, but, me en reference of Tooritiun, it Was 
described i in 1857 by Wollaston (2) under the name of Tomicus per. 
Jorans. He recorded it from the wit tores ie F ne Medo adeira, 
“exceedingly t 
He found i t slroqenty i in the Canary Islands, burrowing 
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n on it, anc 
iently check 
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et 
contineal spate owing, I belie ey to. des disastrous 
: tomologist, who, in 1867, iden tified it wron n gm 
Einen pee X; Seg px due dcc on the evidence iors 
drawin 

from Ceylon under the name Bostrych 


