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pears in dry seasons, had destroyed as much as a fourth of the sug-arcane 

 crop in the neighbourhood of the Cawnpore ±ixperi mental Farm. 



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

 pestj which is known locally ?isMandaraah, has this year (1888) done in- 

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



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

 which is known as Monji kilo, pur ugu. 



The Agricultural Officer of Burdwan and Seebpur, writes ^ 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 



^^'■^^- other parts of the world : — 



In the year 1750 Hughes mentions* 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 ^ that the pest was found fatally destructive in Guada- 

 loupe in 1785 and 1786. 



Beckford notices^ the presence of the borer in Jamaica in 1790. 



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

 St. Vincent, describing it as Biatraea sacchari. 



Westwood mentions ^ the pest as destructive to sugarcane in Jamaica 

 in 1841. 



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

 tius, ^ 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. ^^ 



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

 crop in British Guiana. ^^ 



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

 by the Director of Land Records and Agriculture Bengal. 



'^ In a report forwarded by the Revenue and Agricultural Department. 

 8 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). • 



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



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



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



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



^ 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). 



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

 culture, 1880, page 240. 



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

 1880, page 16. 



