ROTAL itohticultural society. 
and doing much mischief. Tliis was referred to Professor West- 
wood for further examination. 
Specimens of the Pine-Beetle and of a species of Tortrix * 
were then shown. A " llose-scale," supposed to be new, Avas also 
shown by Mr. Murray, Avho also alluded to a curious mite, Ori- 
hata geniculata. 
Mr. Gr. r. Wilson exhibited a series of water-colour drawings 
of tropical plants, which have been presented to the Society by 
Mr. Eernyhough, and the Meeting then adjourned. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
W. A¥iLSO?f Saunders, Esq., E.R.S., in the Chair. 
The thanks of the Society were given to Mr. Eernyhough for 
his handsome present to the Society of a series of coloured 
sketches of tropical fruits. 
Attention was then called to the variegated Abutilons, of which 
a Beport is given in the proceedings of the Scientific Committee. 
The Chairman stated that he had 120 species of Agave in his 
collection, an enormous increase within a very few years. 
Major Trevor Clarke remarked on the absence of odour in all 
the beautiful Cyclamens exhibited at the Meeting. 
* In a letter in the ' Gardener's Chronicle,' March 5, 1870, signed " Forester," 
it is stated that the Pine-Beetles {Hylurgus jyinijperdci) were found to be most 
destructive. A Tortrix^ however, is a great pest in Aberdeenshire, the cater- 
pillar attacking the young shoot and producing a very curious appearance, which 
may at once be recognized. A species of Sawfly is also very destructive. 
