of tar mi xed with fine sand. Holes should be probed with a " beetle 



spear" or hooked wire to extract insect which may haw canned them, 

 and then plugged with a tuft of I ' -1 in tar. 



The parts -el< < t< 1 toi i __ ' ning on the stem may be plastered with 

 lime-wash, to whi -h. when cold, there may he ad-. Km 1, as an experiment, 

 a small quantity ical poison). 



Tarring the .stem will probably keep off the beetles, but should he 

 tried with great caution till its effects on the tree have been ascertained. 

 Mr. C. T. Hunter states that he has kept away the beetles by pouring 

 tar on the leaf -spike and the leaf sheaths; he claims for this 



last for some three years. Application of tar to the leaf --heaths 

 would probably do no harm, but may not be necessary if they 

 themselves .-; ly l>eing left intact. It might, how- 



ever, lessen any jx.-sibiliiy of beetles creeping in to oviposit '«etwoen 

 loosely fitting sheaths. Such ;• remedy ought only to b ' tried on a small 

 number of trees, so that the loss may not he felt if it prows injurious. 

 Most disastrous results have before now followed the application on a 

 large scale of an untested to plants. ('eatings of 



moist (day have been found useful in similar 

 position which has met with success in Grerm 

 thus prepared : Five pounds of coarse tobac 

 half full of boiling water and allowed to 

 vessel is then tilled with ox-blood and one 

 sixteen offresh cow-dung are added (quantity 

 mixed and allowed to ferment for two or thr 

 then applied to the parts requiring protectic 

 suited for the lower parts of the stem. 



It is not supposed that the above mixta: 

 ployed in Honduras, but it is given as a 



Coarse soaps and rank oils (whale oil) havt 



3. Destruction of Injured Trees. 

 This treatment is the one most generally recommended, 





taken to treat it when felled so as to make it unsuitabh 

 place. In fact it will be probably less harmful if left b 

 felled and neglected. 



To the reckless felling and, subsequent neglect of inju 

 be attributed much of the recent increase in the insects' 



it may be buried u 

 be cut off so high * 



