1881. ] Entomology. 239 
The ravages of what has now come to be more generally called 
the Phylloxera, though the term should always be qualified, since 
there are many other species besides that which attacks the grape- 
vine, have attracted so much attention in foreign countries and 
caused so much fear in those countries not yet invaded by it, that 
the most stringent laws have been enacted to prevent such inva- 
sion. Some of these laws are injurious and unnecessary in so far 
as they prohibit the importation of all living plants, and at Cape 
Town, more particularly, they have been carried out with such 
zeal, that a cargo of potatoes arriving from New Zealand was 
recently destroyed for fear that the pest might be imported 
therein. A great deal of controversy has grown out of this 
stringent’ legislation, and Dr. Maxime Cornu has lately sub- 
mitted a report, in which, while confessing that Phylloxera 
vastatrix is confined to the grape-vine and can flourish on no 
other plant, he yet recommends the following of the example set 
by Algeria, which is to forbid the introduction of all vegetable 
products whatever except those absolutely required for consump- 
tion. 
I have been too busily engaged during the last few years with 
other injurious insects to give very much attention to the grape 
Phylloxera in this country; yet I have made continuous observa- 
tions which confirm all that I have in past years written on 
the subject, and from which I do not hesitate to declare that it is 
