NEW VINE SCOUEGB. 299' 
This report is entirely confined to the limits of my 
Consular district. 
(Signed) Oswald Ceawfued. 
Her Majesty's Consulate, 
Oporto, 29th June, 1872. 
No. 4. 
Lord Lyons to Earl Granville.— (Received, 17th July.} 
Paris, 16th July, 1872. 
My Loed, 
With your despatch of the 25th ultimo, your 
Lordship was so good as to send me a copy of a 
despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon on the 
subject of the Phylloxera vastatrit, an insect which 
preys upon vines. 
I have the honour to transmit herewith to your 
Lordship copies of two despatches which I have re- 
ceived from Her Majesty's Consul at Bordeaux, to* 
whom I applied for information respecting this insect. 
I have, &c, 
(Signed) Lyons. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 4.] 
Consul T. G. Hunt to Lord Lyons. 
Bordeaux, 2nd July, 1872. 
My Loed, 
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of 
your Excellency's despatch of the 30th ultimo, inclosing 
the copy of a communication to Earl Granville by Her 
Majesty's Minister at Lisbon, on the subject of the 
insect Phylloxera vastatvix, which has attacked the- 
