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cruciferss ) ; the Diamond-back Moth ( Plutella maculipennis) and the 
Silvery-Y Moth (Plusia gamma). 
The Aphides are in the hands of the Department of Agriculture 
of the United States. The Coccidse, which are dealt with separately, 
have been examined by Mr. Robert Newstead, and a new species is 
described ( vide Appendix). Mr. Fletcher is issuing an account of 
the life-history of the Egyptian pests. 
Insect Pests of the West Indies. 
Further names of insects of economic importance in the West 
Indies have been sent since the 
was issued as follows : — 
Chrysopa sp. (being examined). 
Megilla maculata var., de Geer. 
Dilophonota ello, Linn. 
Tomarus bi tuber culatus, Bean. 
Three sp. ? of Platypus. 
irst Report on Economic Zoology 
Exochomus nitidulus, Fab. 
Chetocnema cimazonicus , Baly. 
Epitrix parvula, Fab. 
Oorythaica monarcha, Stal. 
Scymnus ochroderus , Muls. 
GROUP F. 
SUB-GROUP A. ANIMALS WHICH CONCERN MAN AS 
BEING DESTRUCTIVE TO HIS WORKED-UP PRODUCTS 
OF ART AND INDUSTRY, SUCH AS HIS VARIOUS 
WORKS, BUILDINGS, LARGER CONSTRUCTIONS AND 
HABITATIONS. 
Termites destroying Houses in the Basses- 
Pyrenees. 
Information lias been sent to C. Drummond Wolff, Esq., of 
Caplanne, Billere, Pan, Basses-Pyrenees, who wrote regarding the 
best plans to adopt to save certain of his houses that were being- 
destroyed by White Ants. “I have,” he says, ‘‘three houses here 
standing in about 18 acres of ground. We have recently discovered 
that one of them is infested with Termites (White Ants), and all the 
woodwork is so much dust. We are advised to pull down the house, 
but that would mean losing some £300 a, year. Nobody seems to 
know how to destroy them. I suggested corrosive sublimate, but 
I do not know how to make it penetrate throughout, if, indeed, that 
is efficacious.” 
