lie bark seemed t!ie planter' 

 the seventies that the expo 

 id million pounds in 1880 t 

 by enabling quinine to be so 

 *. in 1880, but causing loss 

 ■ bark as lire wood when the 

 it. The old coffee lands a 

 been planted with tea in su( 

 J.000.000 lbs., and of a qui 



>ffee, but the difficulty in Ceylon is to find lam 

 linenrtyinto a of the Mikj 



:1 suitable for coffee 

 its cultivation pro- 

 d the success that is 



*ctent, and the coffee planter nowadays has littl 



as a held for coffee 

 e to fear from that 



CCCVIL— PARASOL ANT. 



The Parasol or leaf-cutting ant of Tropical America (CEcodoma 

 cephalotes) is so destructive to cultivated plants that it has long been 

 regarded as a serious pest. In the island of Trinidad an ( h'dinancc lias 

 been passed known as ^ The Parasol Ants Ordinance 1890," for the 



purpose of eradicating the nests of these ants. A- the ordinance is in 

 some respects a new departure in regard to the destruction of an indi- 



noticed. The ordinance is permissive in its action, and provides that 

 any person whose gardens or plantations suffer or are likely to suffer 

 from the depredations «,f parasol ants may present a complaint to the 

 warden of his district, who, after due inquiry, is empowered to give 

 authority to the complainant to enter upon lands in his neighbourhood 

 and destroy the ants' nests complained of. If ihe nests cannot be 

 destroyed without injury to trees and growing crops, the complainant 

 may be called upon to deposit a certain sum beforehand to compensate 

 the owner and occupier of the land for any damage done. The 

 ordinance, it will appear, provides for the destruction of the nests, not by 

 the person on whose land they are found, but by the person who suffers 



