Ho. I.] Further Notes. 23 



peavs in dry seasons, had destroyed as much as a fourth of the sugarcane 

 crop in the neighbourhood of the Cawnpore Experimental Farm. 



The Special Manager of the Dhaukora Wards Estate writes x that the 

 pest, which is known locally as Mandaruah, has this year (1888) done in- 

 jury to the sugarcane crops in several parts of the estate. 



The Collector of Ganjam also notices 2 injury done by this insect, 

 which is known as Monji kilo, purugu. 



The Agricultural Officer of Burdwan and Seebpur, writes 3 that the 

 loss occasioned by the pest, sometimes amounts to fully one-fourth of the 

 cane crops of a neighbourhood. 



The pest in other parts of the With regard to injury by the pest in 



world - other parts of the world : — 



In the year 1750 Hughes mentions 4 injury done to the cane in Bar- 

 badoes by the larvae of small moths which are likely to have been the 

 same as the borer. 



Porter notices 5 that the pest was found fatally destructive in Guada- 

 loupe in 1785 and 1786. 



Beckf ord notices c the presence of the borer in Jamaica in 1 790. 



In 1828 the Revd. L. Guilding wrote 7 an account of the borer in 

 St. Vincent, describing it as Diatraea sacchari. 



Westwood mentions 8 the pest as destructive to sugarcane in Jamaica 

 in 1841. 



About the year 1856 the insect did great damage to cane in Mauri- 

 tius, 9 into which island it was supposed to have been introduced from 

 Ceylon. 



In 1857 the borers were very abundant along the Lower Mississippi 

 in the United States. 10 



About the year 1879 the borer did great damage to the sugarcane 

 crop in British Guiana. 11 



1 In a letter dated 23rd September to the Collector of Mymensingh that was forwarded 

 by the Director of Land Records and Agriculture Bengal. 



2 In a report forwarded by the Revenue and Agricultural Department. 



3 In a letter dated 4th July which was forwarded by the Director of Land Records and 

 Agriculture, Bengal. 



* See Roth's Animal Parasites of the Sugarcane, page 12, (1885). 



5 "Nature and properties of sugarcane," by G. R. Porter, London, (1830). 



6 See Roth, Animal Parasites of the Sugarcane, p. 8, (1885). 



7 Trans. Soc. Arts., Vol. XLVI, p. 143, (1828). 



8 Gardener's Chronicle, 5th July 1856, page 453. 



9 Bojer's Report of the Select Committee appointed to examine the extent of the 

 damage done by the cane-borer in Mauritius, 1856 ; reprinted in the Sugarcane for 1873, 

 (see Roth's Parasites of the Sugarcane). 



10 See Dr. Riley's paper in the Entomology Report of the IT. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, 1880, page 240. 



11 See papers by Miss Ormerod in Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, pp. 33 and 36 ; and 

 1880, page 16. 



