. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Acme Powder Bellows. On p. 90 (if the present volume of the AjricuHural JVews a short account was given of the ' Acme Powder Bellows' for applying Paris green to cotton and other crops. The acconi[ianying illustration will serve to give an idea of the construction of this simple, but useful machine. INSECT Fig. 5. Showinc tunnels m.\de by Chlorida festiva. Two Tree Borers. During the past two years several trees of the Barbados ebony {Alhi::ia Lebhek), or woman's tongue, as it is frequently called, have bee
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Acme Powder Bellows. On p. 90 (if the present volume of the AjricuHural JVews a short account was given of the ' Acme Powder Bellows' for applying Paris green to cotton and other crops. The acconi[ianying illustration will serve to give an idea of the construction of this simple, but useful machine. INSECT Fig. 5. Showinc tunnels m.\de by Chlorida festiva. Two Tree Borers. During the past two years several trees of the Barbados ebony {Alhi::ia Lebhek), or woman's tongue, as it is frequently called, have been observed in a dead or dying condition in Barbados. In all the cases that have been examined the trees have been attacked by borers. Figures 5 and 6 are from ]iliotographs of sections of the trunk of an Albizzia tree in Barbados that had been attacked by borers and had died. These borers were of two kinds ; one of them {Chlorkhi festiva) is a green beetle with a gold stripe running length- wise of the wing-covers near the outer liorder. The legs are light brown and the antennae, which are longer than the liody, are dark brown. Each wing- cover is provided with two small spines at the tip. Fig. 5 shows the appearance of the tunnels made by this insect, which are not cylindrical and frequently open out into wide chambers. Fig. 6 shows the tunnels of the other principal borer in the Albizzia. These burrows are cylindrical, uniform in size, extending in all directions through the wood. The tunnels of (CIdortda festiva), on the other hand, are generally confined to the young sapwood and rarely penetrate directly toward the centre of the stem. The insect, the work of which is represented in fig. 6, has not yet been identified. The adult is a long, slender, black insect, l^to li inches in length, the wings are small, not reaching more than two-thirds the length of the abdomen. They are weak in flight and can rise but little. The larva attains a length of lA inches or more, is nearly
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