





uries to a large and important industry have ‘bbturally excited 
considerable inquiry onthe part of sugar planters, and the aid of Kew has 
been sou in their behalf by the local governments as well as by the 
Secretary of State for the — with the view of affording all 
possible information on the subject 
` The study of Economic Entom olo 
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gy has not received so much. atten- 
ew 









arrie n, i 
ically interested to recogn e several borers and es »ecially 
the “s rer" which is the chief subject of Mr. Blandford's present 
investigations and loud t6 o a conclusion, not yet clearly made out, whether 
these borers attack —Ó healthy canes or are mr the followers 
of a disease or inju 
wag raks ON SuGAR-CANE Noo 




t pon Sipiri of a siall rig —— known as the 
sper: » have recently attracted much attention, and aroused m 
alarm among planters in the West Indian Islands. The thao de 
ofv reat importance involving no little difficulty i in ascertaining 
all the particulars of the ep economy, and in basing methods of 
nieste on the results obtaine 
The chief subject for Bread is the relation of the iieb attacks 
iti 



ately us aad i 5-dei many beei Benet to dis disti inet 
nd of dissimilar habits, whieh "grë in making shot-holes in 
edit account is based on the examination of all spétiinens ead 
: received at the Royal Gardens, MT since d 
Eod infirm sion collected by myself from other ther sources. T 
id e d SO ACE RS 4 
