304 PHYLLOXERA VASTATRIX, OR 
No. 5. 
Lord Lyons to Earl Granville. — (Received 2Mh July.) 
Paris, 23rd July, 1872. 
My Lord, 
With reference to my despatch of the 16th 
instant, I have the honour to transmit to your Lord- 
ship copies of a further despatch from Mr. Consul Hunt 
and its enclosures, relative to the insect Phylloxera 
vastatrix, destructive to vines. 
I have, &c, 
(Signed) Lyons. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 5.] 
Consul T. C. Hunt to Lord Lyons. 
Bordeaux, 22nd July, 1872. 
My Lord, 
With reference to my despatch of the 15th 
instant, in which I transmit to your Excellency a 
communication from the Chamber of Commerce at this 
place, on the subject of the insect Phylloxera vastatrix, 
I have the honour to enclose the copy of a letter, with 
the papers accompanying it, received by me this 
morning from the Prefect of the Gironde. 
These papers admit the existence of the insect in the 
neighbourhood of Bordeaux, but show that it has 
not been propagated beyond the part where it first 
-appeared. 
As in the more eastern districts of France its 
ravages have been widely extended as soon as it 
appeared, there must be great doubt whether the insect 
found here is the same that has done so much mischief 
there, or whether it is the true cause of the mischief. 
