OR COCCUS, OF THE COFFEE-PLANT. 5 
In the Dimboola district the estates are all young, none of them 
having yet borne a crop. In all of them the Coccus has been observed, 
but only in a trifling degree. 
In the Puselana district the estates have been in bearing for two or 
three years, and all of them are more or less infested with the Coccus, 
though not nearly to the same extent as the Kotmalee ones. The 
. only one of them which I examined particularly, is called the 
. Rothschild estate, containing about 400 acres; and it, perhaps, is 
suffering more severely than any other in the district. Here I 
found the history and effects of the plague to be much the same as 
elsewhere. It was first discerned on a few bushes in a hollow, sheltered 
part of the estate, where the soil is rich and rather swampy, about the 
beginning of 1846, and since then it has been gradually spreading 
till the present time, when, in its different stages, it infests a large 
portion of the estate, though perhaps not more thirty acres are in the 
worst state, the loss of crop on which is estimated to be about two- 
thirds. : 
On the Hunisgiria range, which is situated to the north-east of 
Kandy, the Scale did not make its appearance till about two years 
ago. Upwards of a dozen of estates were visited, and all of them 
I found more or less injured. The Hunisgiria estate, which is the 
nearest to Kandy and on the western side of the range, is that on 
which it first appeared, and the one, also, that has suffered most. As 
elsewhere, it did not cause either much apprehension or damage 
during the first year; but this season several large patches, of acres 
in extent, have turned quite black. ‘The only other badly infected — d 
estate in this district is that called Dottlegalla, several miles further — 
north, and between which and the Hunisgiria estate there are two 
others but slightly touched. Here, however, no information regarding —— 
its origin or progress could be obtained, as a new superintendent had 
just taken charge of it. Between this estate and that of Cabragalla, 
at the north end of the range, as well as those on its eastern side, none 
of the estates have yet suffered, though on examination they were all 
found to possess the seeds of the damage. = 
I have been particular in my inquiries into the effect which atmo- - 
spheric changes exert on the habits and effects of the Coffee Coceus, — 
but no very satisfactory information has resulted. The general 
impression seems to be that it flourishes most luxuriantly in wet 
