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were being grown extensively on that island. A little later, Mr. 

 Claude W. McCallan, of Bermuda, appealed to Washington for sug- 

 gestions in regard to the Mediterranean fruit-fly which was destroy- 

 ing the peach crop of that island. A correspondence began with 

 Mr. C. A. Barber, Superintendent of Agriculture of the Leeward 

 Islands, on the subject of the sugar cane shot-borer, and with Mr. 

 H. Caracciolo and Mr. F. W. Urich of Trinidad. 



In 1 89 1, T. D. A. Cockerell, of England, was appointed Curator of 

 the Institute of Jamaica at Kingston under the especial condition that 

 he should conduct investigations in economic entomology and answer 

 all correspondence of this kind which might come from the planters. 

 Mr. Cockerell found scale insects extremely abundant in Jamaica 

 and began their study. He started a series of stylographic notes, 

 mainly about injurious insects, and distributed them among the 

 planters. He was succeeded by C. H. Tyler Townsend, who held 

 office for about a year. 



In 1898 the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West 

 Indies was established with headquarters at Barbados, and Sir Daniel 

 Morris, coming from Kew Gardens in London, was appointed Com- 

 missioner. In 1899, Mr. H. Maxwell Lefroy was sent over from 

 London to take the position of Entomologist. In 1903 he was trans- 

 ferred to India. Mr. H. A. Ballou, of Massachusetts, was appointed 

 as his successor, and still retains the position. 



In the late nineties, the Trinidad Field Naturalists Club was 

 active in entomological work, and succeeded eventually in having an 

 entomologist appointed in the person of Mr. F. W. Urich, who had 

 as assistant Mr. P. L. Guppy. The first publication was on the life 

 history and control of the cacao-beetle, by Mr. Guppy, a well illus- 

 trated pamphlet with an excellent colored plate. This was followed 

 by regular annual reports and by other papers, including one on some 

 insects afifecting the coconut palm by Messrs. Urich and Guppy, one 

 on the cotton stainer by Mr. Guppy and Thomas Thornton, one on 

 froghoppers by J. C. Kershaw, and an admirably illustrated account 

 of the sugar cane froghopper with biological notes on other species 

 by Mr. Urich, as well as other papers. 



It is interesting to note that, in the opinion of many residents of 

 Trinidad, the damage done by insects on the island and the great 

 increase of this damage, especially by the sugar cane froghopper, 

 must be attributed to the introduction of the Indian mongoos into 

 Trinidad in the closing part of the last century. It was brought in to 

 destroy rats. It increased rather rapidly, and was found to destoy 

 young pigs, kids, lambs, kittens, puppies, poultry, birds of all kinds 



