



ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 










OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 


Nos. 67, 68. | JULY Ax» AUGUST. [1892. 


CCLIV.—SUGAR-CANE BORERS IN THE WEST 
INDIES. 
During the last few Jeu a considerable correspondence das | 
carried on n between dept Gardens, Kew, and the West 
: acc led Diatrea saccharalis. 
first described in 1828 byt the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, also from St. 
Vincent specimens, and there is little doubt that the “ pere ae 
use the name under which it is popularly known, has been present in 
the West Indies and elsewhere as a pest of sugar-cane for the last 
M years. Of late it has injured sı naic 
811); in Mauritius (1856) ; 
r. inn in British Guiana (1879). 
. land and more recently. in India. Another well- kno 
‘borer is a weevil (.S; hid sacchari), speci el 
ew Museum No. IL, w from 






s not been clearly te bal, ou 
i “appearance ce is a minute beetle, 
has been desee as Xyleborus e 
iven 




e popular n | G had distinctive enough, as it] has | 
criminately cided w dem many beetles belo n 
and of dissimilar | 






: s of ie gation the sugar-cane crop, whilst in 
istinct filis as much pic ent. loss has been i ineurred. 

