UL te ee ee LULL TRO T 
eS ee ee елй ал 
iT 
"i possible, the soap emulsion should be used for the mealy bugs, 
will be more likely to get at them than other forms of emulsio 
The white waxy covering protects the insects from water. Вовру 
water would, however, probably break down this defensive protection 
and allow tne emulsion to get at the insect. 'The young are not 
protected and will therefore easily be killed. 
If a lookout is kept on the fields and the patches of blighted canes 
are sprayed as soon as noticed, it is probable that it may quite easily 
and cheaply be kept in check. "This blight lives on many plants 
besides sugar -— and should be destroyed wherever found about 
the estate. АП insects of this class are most prolific and multiply 
with PE T 27404 when there is а sufficiency of eem 
food available. 1t might, therefore, at any time assume serio 
proportions, though, 1 understand, up to the present it has not aa 
much damage on Nova Scotia 
2nd October, 1901. 
NOTE ON RATUFA BICOLOR, THE LARGE MALAY 
SQUIRREL. 
Bx FREDERIC W. KNOCKER, 
FEMALE specimen of, what the writer considers to be, one of the 
numerous varieties of Ratufa bicolor, recently presented to the 
о. 
Perak Museum by er Watson, of Su Siput, is worthy of 
note as not only differing slightly from any variety yet described, but 
ao in its close resemblance to a mal mpan 
uirrel 
the Museum collections and labelled Sciurus laticaudatus. 
NC —— of the former, made whilst still i in the flesh, is as 
follo 
Length of body and head . 1 ft. SI ш, 
Length of tail to extremity of caudal verte- `- 
brae, without hair a а ЕЁ АД ап 
Length of hind-foot.. : wi id 3 in 
» ear is. 1 = 
The inguinal mammae (six i in DT soles and palms, black. 
The prevailing colour is rufous, the whole of the back, with the 
fore-limbs and buck of neck grizzled with black, which appearance is 
sal on, then à e annulation of light rufous and ti h 
black (? very dar ) The whole of the underparts pale ferru- 
ous, this colour continuous also on the inside of the limbs, but a 
gin o 
shade darker. The outer portion of the hind limbs is dusky rufous, 
not grizzled ; whilst on the upper part of the thigh is а broad band of 
pale buff about an inch wide. The feet are dark brown, the inner half 
e finge 
Crown of the head is gri ева rufous fut lighter than that of the back. 
Forward it shades off to а grizzly grey, which extends downwards in 
front of de: eye to the chin. The nose dark rus sty brown; cheeks 
greyish white, from which spot spring the blackish moustachois; the 
Jan., 1905. 
