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or more important papers in the Transactions of the Linnean Society 

 and the Magazine of Natural History on West Indian insects, includ- 

 ing an important paper on the insects which infest the sugar cane 

 and the first account of that extraordinary Coccid, Morgarodes 

 formicarum (1828), down through the later workers. It should be 

 noted that C. C. Gowdey, before he went to Uganda, went to the 

 West Indies to join Ballon shortly after his own graduation from 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and published a good paper 

 on the Aleyrodidae of Barbados. It should also be stated that Dr. 

 J. C. Hutson worked down there on cotton insects and that W. Nowell 

 and J. S. Dash also worked in Barbados. The work of the English- 

 men, Guelch, Moore, Bodkin, and Cleare, in British Guiana might 

 also be mentioned here, but has been taken up under the head of 

 South America, although Trinidad, which is considered in this sec- 

 tion as one of the West Indies, has the Guiana fauna and is really 

 little more than an island promontory from the South American 

 coast. 



Fortunately, a summary of the entomological work undertaken by 

 the Imperial Department of Agriculture during the p^eriod from 

 October i, 1898, to March 31, 191 1, was published by Professor 

 Ballou in the West Indian Bulletin, Volume 11, No. 4, 191 1. This is 

 a very careful and detailed report and brings out very many points 

 that cannot be mentioned in this limited account. In addition to the 

 names already mentioned, it should be noted that W. K. Morrison, 

 Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris, and Charles W. Jemmett were temporarily 

 attached to the staff of the Imperial Department as Honorary Assis- 

 tant Entomologists at one time or another during the period men- 

 tioned. Doctor Hamlyn-Harris was there from October 10, 1902, 

 to January 31, 1903. He has recently been doing admirable work as 

 a sanitary entomologist in Australia. Appended to the article is a list 

 of entomological publications in the West Indian Bulletin, Volumes 

 I to II, and specially published pamphlets. The list includes 45 papers 

 on different aspects of economic entomology. 



In the closing days of 1929 an excellent paper comes to my desk 

 entitled " The Giant Moth-borer of the Sugar Cane {Casinia ileus 

 Dr.)" by H. Martin Skinner, in charge of plant control work of the 

 Ste. Madeleine Sugar Co., Trinidad. It contains a very beautiful 

 colored plate of the insect. 



CUBA 



The very interesting tropical fauna and flora of Cuba attracted 

 attention at an early date, and many of the great museums of Europe 



