THE PALM WEEVIL. 
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tion, may be added to the temper lime commonly 
used in plain tempering. Such a measure of this 
mixture should be added to the liquor in the pan as 
would be deemed sufficient to correct the prevailing 
acidity. When the liquor has been boiled into what 
is called first syrup, it should be racked through the 
cock. By this timely remedy I have secured well 
grained sugar which has not deliquesced during the 
voyage to Europe, even when I had had the misfor- 
tune to have ground tainted canes.” 
The Rev. Lansdown Guilding, of St. Vincent’s, 
who was honoured by the Society of Arts of London, 
with the Gold Ceres Medal, for his memoir on 
Insects which infest the sugar-cane, describes the 
Calandra palmarunii a gigantic weevil, known as 
the parent of the palm worms (the Gru-gru of the 
negroes), as a pest in sugar plantations, as well as its 
congener, the Calandra sacchari, the subject of 
Mr. King’s description. The Palm Weevil, he says, 
is principally injurious to the cane-plants lately stuck 
in the ground, to which the female is allured by the 
juices which are exuded. These they sometimes 
attack so vigorously, that a fresh planting becomes 
necessary. They do not, however, seem to deposit 
their eggs in full grown canes, when palms are 
abundant in the neighbourhood. 
The same zoologist also describes the Borer-Moth 
{Diatrcea sacchari). ‘‘ By far the most destructive 
and common enemy,” he says, “ is the smaller grub 
of the Borer-moth,” belonging to the jpyralidcc of 
Leach. The sugar-cane is never exempt from 
this dreaded pest.” In the seasonable island of 
