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it is wanted in the spring for planting out, thus preventing the egress of moths from 

 the larvae which have hibernated in the seed cane. 



Roth writes that ' " he has kept the pest under control in Queensland by sending 

 boys with sharp pocket-knives along the rows of cane. The boys spotted the dead 

 or dying shoots and cut them off as close as possible to the parent cutting. They 

 then opened the shoot and destroyed the fat grub. In some cases, however, the 

 grub had migrated to a fresh shoot which as yet did not show any sign of decay, and 

 thus escaped." Roth adds that " while dirty fields were being destroyed wholesale 

 by the grub, clean fields were not infected to any such extent." 



Bibliography. 



H. Ling Roth's papers on the Animal Parasites of the Sugarcane in Mackay (Aus- 

 tralia) : ^* Sugarcane," March and April 1885, and February 1886, which include a 

 bibliography of the subject. 



Dr. Riley's papers in the Entomology Reports of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, 1880, p. 240, and 1881, p. 135, on the pest in the United States, which include a 

 general account of the insect. 



Baboo Joykissen Mookerjee's paper in the Journ. Agri.-Hort. Soc. Ind., Vol. IX, 

 p. 355, 1857, on the pest in Rungpore, Hooghly, and a portion of Burdwan. 



Miss Ormerod's papers in the Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 1880, p. 16, and 1879, 

 pp. 33 and 36, on the pest in British Guiana. 



Guilding's paper in Trans. Soc. Arts, Vol. 46, p. 143 (1828), on the borer in the 

 West Indies. 



Boger's Report of the Select Committee appointed for the purpose of examining the 

 extent of the damage caused by the cane-borer in the Mauritius, 1856.^ 



Westwood's papers in the Gardener s Chronicle, dated 5th July 1856, p. 453, and 

 in the Journal of the Linn. Soc. Lond., 1857, p. 102, on the borer in Mauritius. 



Gill's paper in " The Sugarcane " August 1879, on cane-borers.^ 



Fabricius (J. C.) Beskrivelse over den skadlige sukker og Bomuldsorm i Vest 

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 sypiL) In Skrifter of Naturhist Selsk, 1794, Bd. 3, Heft. 2, p. 63—67 ; Extr. 

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 p. 137—143. (See Hagen's Bibl. Ent., under Fabricius, No. 15.) 



Beckford's descriptive account of the Island of Jamaica, published 1790, Vol. II, 

 pp. 52—54.2 



Hughes' " Natural History of Barbadoes " Fol. London, 1750, pp. 245—247.'' 



' In his " Animal Parasites of the sugarcane," p. 12, 1885. 

 '^ Not seen by the writer. 



