them between the leaf sheath of the cane and the cane itself, 
ins being so, it would seem that the more carefully canes are 
rashed, i.e., the dead leaves are pulled off, the less chance would 
there be of the moth’s laying its eggs on the cane, and did it lay 
is eggs on the bare cane, they would be washed to the ground by 
the first shower. In confirmation of this, I would mention that 
in patches 01 cane grown for eating by natives, the chilo is com- 
paratively rare, and these canes are much more carefully trashed 
than is usually done in a large sugar-estate. 
In some plantations in the West Indies it has been found re- 
munerative to send boys to cut out bored canes, and destroy the 
grub m that way, but this would be an expensive work on a'large 
estate. The msect seems to be very widely distributed, pro- 
ably tiayellmg with sugar-cane as it is carried about from place 
to place by natives It occurs in the West Ind.es, and is abun- 
dant in Province Wellesley and Singapore and probablv else- 
where in the Peninsula. 
The difficulty of dealing with the insect chiefly lies in the large 
areas of sugar under cultivation. To cut out bored canes mk 1 
be practicable m some cases, but the best way of preventing die 
pest becoming unmanageable would be to pay greater attei ^>n 
to the trashing of the canes, and to destroy by burning as much 
as possible the dead or broken bits of canes and trashing in order 
to leave as few hiding places lor the insect as possible. 
The Sugar-weevil ( Sitophilus sculpt-uratus, Schon).— In some 
canes I found the grubs and perfect insects of the weevil. They 
appeared only to occur in broken or injured canes, but there 
seems no reason to doubt that they would also attack healthy 
canes and might be productive of great mischief. 
The grubs resemble those of most weevils, footless, cylindri- 
cal maggots, with a brown horny head. They were about a • 
quarter of an inch in length. The beetle is little more than a 
quarter of an inch long, with a rather long curved beak. The 
head and beak are of a dark brown, the thorax is of the same 
colour and strongly pitted, there is a black line down the centre 
and one on each side. The wing-cases are dark blackish brown 
with four strong ridges on each. The under part of the body is 
grey, thickly dotted over with pits, and the legs are brown. 
The Sugar Rhinoceros-Beetle (. Xylolrupes Gideon).— This large 
beetle I found two or three times among the sugar-canes, and I 
was informed at Caledonia Estate, Province Wellesley, that it 
had been found inside a sugar-cane. If is about two inches long 
and of a dark brown colour. The head is armed with a strong 
horn a quarter of an inch long, which ends in a fork, the points of 
which are curved outwards and backwards. The thorax nearly 
two-thirds of an inch wide is rounded and in the centre projects 
into a short stout process, curved forwards. The wing-cases are 
broad, shield-shaped and blunt, each having a short boss near 
the tail end. The antennae are clubbed as is usual in the section 
of beetles to which it belongs and the legs are long and powerful. 
