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upon plantations. Any offence or default under this Ordinance is 

 punishable by a fine not exceeding £50, or by imprisonment for not 

 more than six months. 



Ritchie (A. H.). Black-fly of Citrus. — Jl. Jamaica Agric. Soc, 

 Kingston, xx, no. 12, December 1916, p. 481. 



The State Plant Board of Florida has declared the spiny black- 

 fly of citrus {Aleurocanthus woglumi) to be a pest and has forbidden 

 the importation into Florida of all trees, plants, vines, shrubs, cuttings, 

 scions, leaves and parts of plants from the Bahamas, India and 

 Jamaica. Timber, sisal hemp or manufactured articles, as well as 

 fruit and vegetables, against which there is no other prohibitive order, 

 are not included. This order has arisen as the result of the occurrence 

 of this Aleurodid in the Bahamas, where it was mistaken for citrus 

 canker. 



An Ordinance to amend the Plant Protection Ordinance 1911. — No. 37, 



11th December 1916, Port of Sjyain, 2 pp. 



Section 2 of the Plant Protection Ordinance, 1911 (Trinidad and 

 Tobago), is amended, a " Pest " now being defined as : " any 

 parasitical, epiphytal or other animal or vegetable organism and 

 also any insect or other invertebrate animal (in whatever stage of 

 existence such insect or animal may be), affecting or injurious to 

 trees, shrubs or herbs, which the Governor may by proclamation 

 from time to time declare to be a pest within the meaning of this 

 Ordinance." 



Section 5 : " The Locust Destruction Ordinance (No. 124), the 

 Parasol Ants Ordinance (No. 125) and the Locust Destruction 

 Ordinance, 1907, are hereby repealed." 



California State Commission of Horticulture Quarantine Order No. 29 

 (with Regulations). Alfalfa V/eevil — Mthh/. Bull. Cal. State 

 Commiss.Hortic., SacrameMto, vi, no. 1, January 1917, pp. 31-32. 



Quarantine Order No. 20 has been revoked and replaced by Quaran- 

 tine Order No. 29, dated 29th December 1916. The full text of the 

 regulations provided by this order concerning the alfalfa weevil, 

 Hyjjera variabilis (Phjtononms posticus), is given. The total absence 

 of any evidence that either bees in the hive or lucerne seed imported 

 from Utah or the States of Idaho and Wyoming, constitute a menace 

 has led to these being struck off the quarantined or restricted 

 list. The regulations regarding potatoes and the belongings of 

 agricultural emigrants materially strengthens the quarantine against 

 affected States. 



Pineapple Weevil.- — Separate from Jamaica Gazette, Kingston, xl, no. 4, 

 25th January 1917. [Received 28th March 1917.] 



Owing to the presence of the pineapple weevil [Metamasiiis ritchiei) 

 in Jamaica, the importation of pineapple slips into the Bahamas from 

 that island has been prohibited. 



