420 General Notes. [Apri 
These rules prohibit the importation and transit, through Belgium, 
of vines, cuttings, etc., from infested districts, but allow their im- 
portation from non-infested districts subject to special authoris- 
tion from the Minister ‘of the Interior. Importation of garden 
produce, cereals, fruit and cut-flowers is not affected by these 
rules, but all other plants, shrubs and vegetables can only beat 
mitted through the custom-houses and upon very stringent spec 
fied conditions. A 
FOSTERING THE STUDY OF Economic ENTOMOLOGY. — France 
does more for the promotion of economic entomology than ay 
other country in Europe, as might be expected from a county 
whose main source of revenue, the grape vine, is so dangerously i 
threatened by the Phylloxera, and which derives so much wealth | 
from the cultivation of the silk-worm. The latest step ae 
we learn, the donation of a plot of land by the city authorities 
Paris for a school of “ insectology ” (to literally translate the 
tard term that has of late come into use there) to be founded 
the Société Centrale d’Agriculture et d’Insectologie. An ae 
mental apiary, a silk nursery, and a mulberry plantation es 
already or are to be constructed in connection with this $ 
while a museum of useful and noxious insects, of insective 
animals, etc., will help to illustrate the lectures to be held in He 
new school—C. V. R., in Rural New Yorker. = 
VIVIPARITY IN A Mora.—At a recent meeting of the Londot = 
(Eng.) Entomological Society, a small moth was exhibited W 
had been received, from Dr. Fritz Müller, from Brazil, © 
sessed an exceptional interest from the fact that it was v! 
having been seen by Dr. Müller to deposit living larve- 
DAMAGE To SILVER PLATE BY Ivsects—Specimens of AE 
hololeucus have been received by Lord Walsingham ee 
land, said to have damaged silver plate, there being holes a 
plate on which the insects were found. The corrosive pi 
probably existed in the foeces. : 
States. I have always contended that the moth 
within the limits of the United States, and in ie rank wit 
fact of its hibernation, principally under the shelter 0 mee 
! Abstract of a paper read by C. V. Riley before the American Associat 
Adv. of Science, at the Montreal meeting. a 
