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nesting near or on the ground, ground lizards, snakes, frogs, turtle 

 eggs, and land crabs. Many of the animals it destroyed feed normally 

 on insects. So in 1902 the Government began to give bounties for 

 the destruction of this animal. 



Whether the increase of the sugar cane froghoppers was due to the 

 introduction of the mongoos or not, a thorough study of the insects 

 was necessitated by their increase. In 191 5 Mr. C. B. Williams, an 

 English entomologist who had studied in the United States, was en- 

 gaged by the Board of Agriculture. He attempted to find an efficient 

 parasite elsewhere. Foreign travel was rendered very difficult by the 

 war ; so he confined his investigations to near-by countries and islands, 

 going as far as Panama. He returned to Trinidad in July, 191 7, and 

 continued his investigations. At the close of 1920 he published a full 

 report which was well illustrated. After that he went to Egypt to 

 accept an entomological position under the Government of that 

 country. 



In 1925 a Froghopper Investigation Committee for Trinidad and 

 Tobago was established, and this committee has continued in exis- 

 tence until the present time. It has published its minutes and pro- 

 ceedings in 14 pamphlets, the last one being dated 1929 and includ- 

 ing the proceedings of the meeting of December 19, 1928. At this 

 last meeting Dr. J. G. Myers, an expert connected with the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology in London, stated that he had been sent to 

 the West Indies and the adjacent mainland with a view to the intro- 

 duction of natural control methods so far as possible in cases of 

 severe insect damage. 



To revert once more to Jamaica, a number of years after C. H. T. 

 Townsend resigned, A. H. Ritchie, a Scotsman who had been 

 studying as a Carnegie Scholar in the United States, was appointed 

 Entomologist for a i;)€riod and made some very good studies both in 

 agricultural and medical entomology. After the World War he was 

 appointed Entomologist to the Tanganyika Territory, and was suc- 

 ceeded in Jamaica by Mr. C. C. Gowdey who had been Entomologist 

 to Uganda. This must have been in 1920. Mr. Gowdey died in 1928. 



Mr. Gowdey's term in Jamaica was filled with industry. Perhaps 

 the most important thing that he did was to prepare his catalogue of 

 Jamaican insects, which was published by the Department of Agri- 

 culture as Entomological Bulletin No. 4, Parts i and 2. It was very 

 carefully done and well printed, covering 114 pages, with a compe- 

 tent index. All the species known to have been found in Jamaica 

 down to July 31, 1925, are included. The catalogue includes as an 

 appendix a paper on " New Diptera from Jamaica " by C. H. Curran. 



