A Colorado beetle, it is said, has made good his
landing on the coast of Glamorganshire. A Cardiff house-decorator, Alfred John, took one last Sunday, which had been observed by his wife on a potato, to the police-station, and there the health officer, Dr. Pain, declared the beetle to be of the genuine Colorado type. The insect is supposed to have travelled by a vessel now in port with a large cargo. It may well turn out that the successful landing of this expeditionary force on the coast of Wales will, as Sir Wilfrid Lawson long ago predicted, be more disastrous for England than the landing of any naval or military force which we could rationally expect. Indeed, the beetle may prove far more formidable in Wales than even the Bashi-Bazouks in Thessaly. It is not so cruel, but it is even more rapacious ; and the law of the increase of its population is in itself only too formidable.
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