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py shaking the trees and picking. mre Od eem by means of 
pin cased in hese precautions were 
onal as the caterpillars were furnished wiih brin hairs, causing a 
good deal of pain if incautiously handled. They were destroyed by 
boiling water, after which they were buried. 
The plague abr for pwp months. The quantity of PME 
collected was over 60,000 catties, and weighed nearly 36 tons. Cocoon 
to the Sh of 5 ,000 eatties were also collected. Altogether it is 
estimated that about 35,000,000 insects were destroyed. The cost was 
5,000 dollars 
The cause of the large increase in the caterpillars this year is attri- 
buted to the exceptionally severe winter of 1892-93, which was possibly 
unfavourable to some natural foe which kept the increase of the 
pone treni in check. The markings on the — correspond ve 
sely with sears on the branches of the pine trees. n this account 
the caterpillars are very difficult to see, even when EÀ are fully — 
They are then about 3 inches long and a quarter of a 
breadth. “This close — e “the branches of the ven points 
to a form of protection from other insect or bird.” - Another 
point in favour of the ketin i that the severe weather had killed its 
foe is the fact that the caterpillar had been known on the mainland for 
several years past, but previous a; the winter of 1892-93 it had not been 
known to do considerable damage. 
According to wi ations mà year, the life history of the insect is as 
follows: The firs eggs were laid at the end of April. The caterpillars 
became dhrysshás at the end of May or beginning of June. The moths 
appeared in the middle of June, and they were depositing the second lot 
of ee in Ju 
rt pa as follows: : * It is satisfaetory to know that the 
ebd employed for the extirpation of the scourge have been decidedly 
successful ; of the ‘many thousands of trees attacked, only a very small 
per-centage 
their leaves destroyed are recovering. ‘The pest, which at one time 
threatened the destruction of all the pine trees in the colony, has, for 
the present at least, been most successfully coped with.” 
CCCCXXIV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
e DinEcTOR has been elected an honorary member of the New 
ficat M in recognition, ein ud other grounds, “ of the aid he 
[or rather Kew] has so cordially rendered to botiniy in the British 
colonies," 
a i i 
Fleet-Paymaster WirLiaw WykEHAM PERRY, R.N.—This officer, 
whose services to Kew deserve some record, died on the 14th of June, 
1894, at the early age of 48,a fact that only recently came ng our 
knowledge. Mr. Perry distinguished himself 19 bee: ago by an act of 
