466 Natural History in foreign Countries : — 



in reality have retained the genuine mane of the tapir. After- 

 wards, to render still more fantastic a being which was already 

 intermediate between a quadruped and a bird, they converted 

 this crest into the likeness of the dorsal fin of a fish. 



The division of the toes of the tapir caused, with the Greeks, 

 the same error as with the Chinese in the fabrication of their 

 me; and accordingly they substituted for them those of a lion. 

 As to the tail, it was almost certain that they would attempt 

 to supply that appendage : and, whilst some merely gave to 

 the animal one conformable with its feet; others, desiring to 

 make the figure wholly imaginary, bestowed upon it a spiral 

 scroll, and ornamented it with the leaves of the y^canthus. 

 {Annales des Sciences Naturelles.) 



WEST INDIES. 



Insects which infest the Sugar Cane {Saccharum qfficindrum L.). 

 — The Rev. Lansdown Guilding, B.A. F.L.S. F.G.S., &c., 

 has been honoured by the Society of Arts with the gold Ceres 

 medal, for his memoir on this subject, of which the following 

 is the essence : — 



The Calandra palmarum {Jig, 91<. the female creeping : 

 Jig, 95, a, the male ; b, the larva ; c, the pupa ; and d, the case 



or follicle ; all of the natural size) " is principally injurious to 

 the plants lately stuck in the ground, to which the female is 

 allured by the juices which are exuded. These they some- 

 times attack so vigorously, that a fresh planting becomes 

 necessary. They do not seem to deposit their eggs in full- 

 grown canes, when palms are abundant in the neighbour- 

 hood." 



Calandra sacchari (Jig. 96.) " confines itself principally to 

 ^such canes as have been slightly injured; though it sometimes 

 attacks the more vigorous plants^ which it excavates to the 



