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to the sugarcane moth; the coffee leaves were mined 

 by tineid larvae; crotalaria suffered from the cro- 

 talaria moth; and vegetables from army worms and 

 cutworms. 



Other moths collected were: pilocrocis, syngamia, 

 epitamyra, galasa, mapeta, carcha, melanchroia, 

 thysanopyga, syrrhodia, semiothisa, attacus, blep- 

 tina, bibacta, macrodes, bendis, remigia, erebus, 

 letis;, homoptera^ and aclytia. 



Other Insects 



A small red ant with a powerful bite sometimes 

 waked the boys up at night. Ants came into the 

 kitchen hunting for sweet things, and even cut the 

 leaves off the trees. White ants attacked most 

 kinds of wood. Mosquitoes, sand flies, jiggers, and 

 fleas had their off' seasons, but cockroaches were al- 

 ways present and always hungry. The boys threat- 

 ened to make boxes of Spanish cedar or red cedar to 

 sleep in, thinking thus to escape the insects. 



Grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, and mole crick- 

 ets were common. Also a peculiar kind of praying 

 mantis, called the pimento horse, with body and 

 upper wings the color of a twig and the under wings 

 bright-green like a leaf. It was almost impossible 

 for a bird to see this queer creature because it looked 

 so much like the twig on which it rested. 



