





108: 
Jo ompany, Limited, a specimen of L'EcuxLLE (porringer), an interesting 
instrument used for extracting the — principle from the rind of the 
- fruits of the orange, lemon, and lime. This consists of 
basin about nine inches in diame er. "The concave inner surface is 





Mr. Sturg or has been in u iy years for extracting 
“essence of limes” on the Montserrat Company’s estates in the 
ies. The instrument is held in the left hand, the fruit is taken with 






uce 
When this is done, the essence is 
taken to oom, and placed in a large glass jar to elarify ready 
for shipment. Cesena states that the essence » prepared i in this manner at 
Mo ntserrat is so pure “that it is worth twice its present price in - 
rket. 
Be minute Borine BEETLE, about one-twelfth of an inch long, 
dentified by Mr. W. H. F. Blandford, F. Z.S., as Xyleborus perforans, 
W a feces to have. become injurious to sugar canes in the West 
"This beetle was described b bris from s 
E the bungs í wine cask ; 






asks at 
engaged in ex ng the Fauna Of St. Y inedit t, | 
Ted ij that island, but he. vis of opinion * 


. 
into rum bartels. It is one of the hat i 
attracted by lights at night." Mr. Blandford states that this insect 
has been known “for thirty years as destructiv ve to bee i i 



-eane 
plant" e canes, to ensure that. t] 
egli precautions be i 
tate in the nei hbourhood o 






.of the moth-borer.- 
intervals for ni 
IE E tor dies Jio, ino 
-60 years, Tat its 

