SUGAK-CANE INSECTS. 
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this work; and though the part of the island in 
which I sojourned is not a sugar-growing district, 
the zeal and experience of my friend Mr. Hill will 
supply the deficiency of my knowledge. 
The insects that have been noticed as injurious to 
the cane are principally the following: — the Borer- 
Weevil, the Borer-Moth, the Cane Aphis, the Cane 
Ely, and the Termite. 
Of the first of these, the Borer-Weevil {Calandra 
sacchari), the best account is contained in a prize 
communication made to the Royal Agricultural So- 
ciety of Jamaica, by Mr. Samuel Kell King, of 
Portland, and published in the Society’s Reporter” 
for March 6th, 1845. It is of considerable length, 
and being the result of great practical experience, is 
doubtless valuable. I shall make a few extracts 
from it, and condense the rest of the information. 
Mr. King suggests that the insect is not indigenous, 
but that it was imported into Jamaica from Tahiti ; 
for it suddenly appeared in 1797, the year after the 
Tahitian varieties of the Cane were introduced into 
the island. 
The insect Mr. King thus describes in its trans- 
formations. An egg, the size of a small bead, in a 
considerable degree transparent, is deposited within 
the succulent vessels of the cane, where the adhering 
footstalk of the leaf retains the decayed foliage 
hanging to the germinating joint The egg 
deposited is hatched at the time when the growing 
bud, usually called the eye, exhibits the active influ- 
ences of both heat and moisture. As soon as the 
maggot is formed, it commences its voracious injuries 
