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through the bean and escaped by a round hole usually at one end 
but sometimes through the side. This beetle is Aroeocetus fasci- 
culatus . It is about of an inch long brown, somewhat mottled 
and covered with fine short yellowish hair. Its head is bent down- 
wards rather small, the antennae with a large basal joint followed 
bv a slender portion of very small joints and ending in three 
broader obconic joints. The thorax is broad rounded and narrowed 
a little towards the head. The elytra oblong dotted finely in 
lines but covered with the yellow hair, so that the punctation does 
not show unless it is rubbed off. The elytra do not quite cover 
the abdomen which projects behind. The 'legs are short and stout. 
This beetle is very active on the wing and flies very briskly. A good 
account of this insect is to be found in the India Museum Notes 
IV. p. 125 plate XL It has long been known to attack coffee 
beans, as well as ginger figs, betelnuts and all manner of other 
seeds, and has contrived to get carried all over the world probably 
in infected .seeds of some kinds. The insect is in fact really a go- 
down pest. It does not attack coffee in the field, but haunts houses 
and stores where seed of different kinds are stored and must be 
attacked there. Seeds or coffee beans infected with this pest must 
be rigorously excluded from the store, or it will soon be infected, 
old refuse coffee, or other such stuff likely to contain the beetle 
should be destroyed by burning, or taken far away and buried. If 
the store has got infected, it should be thoroughly cleaned out, and 
whitewashed and all rubbish removed. If sufficient care be taken 
to avoid danger from explosion, the rooms infected by these and 
other warehouse pests can be disinfected by the use of Carbon 
bisulphide. An account of the use of this is published by W. E. 
Hinds as follows : 
A large room belonging to a tobacco establishment was infected 
with the beetle, Lasioderma serricorne /a cigar beetle. About 145 
pounds of Carbon bisulphide were exposed in fifty or more pans 3 
feet long by 1 foot wide and 1 inch deep. The pans were dis- 
tributed through the room as high up as could be conveniently 
placed. The building was carefully locked up and left for 22 hours 
and then opened for ventilation. Nearly all the beetles were des- 
troyed. Special caution is necessary in preventing fire coming in 
contact with the gas, as it is exceedingly inflammable. 
H. N. R. 
IMPORTS OP COFFEE, COPRA AND KAPOK 
IN HOLLAND IN 1901. 
The English Consul at Amsterdam (Consular report for 1901) 
states that the total importation of Coffee in Holland in 1901 
amounted to 1,697,500 bags, a decrease of 134,104 bags on the 
previous year. Of this 1,200,000 bags came from Santos, 55,700 
bags from Africa and 440,000 from the Dutch East Indies. Under 
the influence of two successive heavy crops in the Brazils the trade 
during the first half of the year dragged with falling prices only 
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