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THE FOOD PLANTS OR HOSTS OF SOME FIJIAN INSECTS.' 



By Robert Yeitch, B.Se. and WiLLiAit Grhexwood, H.D.A. 



The authors of this article have been investigating the sugar-cane pests of 

 the Fiji Islands during the past few years, and in the course of their work 

 they have obtained a considerable number of food plant records; host records 

 have also been obtained for a number of parasitic, predaceous and blood-suckiug 

 insects. It is now thought advisable to publish these and to incorporate with 

 them all available records made by other workers. While it is hoped that this 

 list is complete to date it is possible that some records may occur in publications 

 not in the possession of the authors; such records, if tliey do occur, must, 

 however, be few in number. Credit for the various records is made by initials 

 as follows : — 



A.K. Albert Koebele D.N. David North 



F.M. Frederick Muir W.F. Walter Froggatt 



C.K. Charles Knowles T.B. Thomas Broun 



F.J. Frank Jepson R.V. Robert Yeitch 



J.I. James Illingworth W.G. William Greenwood 



Most of the insects credited to the authors liave been identified through 

 the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, and the statf of the Sydney Botanic 

 Gardens has also assisted by naming a number of the plants; the rest of the 

 authors' insect and jjlant identifications have l)een made from their available 

 literature. 



While it is believed that the present list contains all available records 

 to date, it is incomplete in that the feeding habits of only a very small pro- 

 portion of Fijian insects are known at present ; it is hoped, however, that 

 further records will l)e publislied at a later date as information is obtained. 



The food plants are recorded under their botanical names, but the follow- 

 ing are the common names of a few- of the more important plants mentioned 

 in the list of records. 



Avocado Pear Persea yratissima Gaertn. (Laurineae). 



Bamboo Schizostacln/ttm ghmci folium Munro (Gramineae). 



Banana Musa sapientum L. (Scitamineae). 



Barley Jlordeum riilgare L. (Gramineae). 



Castor Oil Plant liiciiiHs eommunis L. (Euphorbiaceae). 



' Published by pei-mission of the General Manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining 

 Company. 



