268 Coffee Planting. 



recognized by the large quantities of young green 

 berries with which the ground beneath the trees 

 will be strewn. It is also easily discovered by 

 a white, flour-like excretion which it deposits 

 around the axil nooks which it has made its 

 abode. 



The prescriptions above recommended for black 

 bug will be here found equally efficacious, though, 

 in either case probably, a decoction of common 

 tobacco might be sufficient, while much more easily 

 prepared. 



The white bug appears to have as decided a 

 preference for hot, dry situations as its black con- 

 frere has for wet ones, and generally disappears 

 in the wet season ; too often, however, only to 

 return as soon as the blossom has "set," when it 

 at once recommences its work of destruction. 



The Borer, formerly known as the " worm," and 

 subsequently as the "coffee fly," first began to 

 attract considerable notice, amounting in some 

 parts of Southern India (especially in Coorg) to 

 consternation, in 1865 or 1866. A great deal has 

 been written about it, and naturalists for some 

 time differed as to its character. It has been 

 variously stated to be the Sirex Gigas, one of the 

 Tetramera of the Coleoptera, and one of the Zenzera ; 

 finally, however, from its exact correspondence 

 with a specimen placed in the British Museum by 



