Insect Pests of the West Indies. 139 



Insect Pests of the West Indies. 



In answer to Mr. Hammond, the following list of West Indian 

 insect pests has been forwarded. The Orange Tests are not given 

 in this list. Probably the Museum of the Jamaican Institute has 

 records, as tliey have publislied catalogues under the title of Museum 

 Notes. This list is further augmented by the identification of 

 specimens sent over by the Imperial Department of Agriculture of 

 the West Indies. The names of these species and their food plants 

 are given in the following pages. 



A. Insects injurious to Sugar Cane. 



1. Large Sugar Cane Borer {Diatroea saccharalis). (" Ins. Life," Vol. iv, 



pp. 95, 103.) 



2. Sugar X^leborus or Pin Borer {XyJehorus per/orans). (" Ins. Life," VtiL 



V. p. 31.) 



3. Sugar Cane Pin Borer {Xi/hborus putescens). I'arbados, Trinidad, 



St. Vincent. 



4. Boring Weevil (Sphenojthorus). 



5. Tropical Sugar Cane Borer (Chilo saccharalis). 



6. Scale (in Jamaica) (Aspidiotus sacchari, Ckll.). 



7. Mites, vide ( Histiostoma rostroserratas (decaying plants). 

 Bull. 40, Royal j Immature Oamasids (predacious). 



Kew Gardens, j Damacics or Mofaspis, sp. Tarsonymus hancrofti, 

 April, 1890. I Miller, does damage to canes. 



B. COTTOX. 



1. Dactylohius virgatus, Ckll. = Mealy Bug on under side of loaves. Jamaica. 



2. Cotton Stainer (Dysdercus audreae), attacks bolls, -'amaica. 



C. Coffee. 



1. Scale {Aspidiotus articidafus). Jamaica. Leaves. 



D. Allspice. 



1. Pimento Borer {Cyrtomerus pilicornis'), bores into twigs. Jamaica. 



E. Banana. 



1. Aspidiotus articulatus, on leaf.'\ 



2. Ceroplastes floridensis. 



3. Aspidiotus personatus.) 



4. Aspidiotus Jicus. ) 



Jamaica. 



rare. 



F. Congo Pea Pests. 



Vide No. 54, Inst. Jamaica Mus. Notes. 



G. Cocoa Plant. 



1. Cocoa Bug {Memhracidas). Leaf-hopper found in Trinidad. 



2. Leaf-cutting Ant {Alta pedeus, L.). Trinidad. 



3. Longhom Beetle (Sterastoma depresstim), on young plants. 



4. Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus palmarum). 



