212 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
transmit a fungous disease which has become serious in some of 
the islands of the West Indies; and, indeed, these pests have 
caused, in part, the almost complete abandonment of the cotton- 
growing industry in Antigua. The name ‘‘stainer’’ originates 
from the fact that the cotton lint is discolored by the excrement 
of the insects and by the fungous disease which gains entrance 
through the punctures as well as by the crushing of the insects 
themselves in the gins. 
Other kinds of Hemiptera in great numbers were taken from 
the bushes and grasses in the cultivated and partly cleared 
areas all over the island. In fact the hemipterous fauna ex- 
ceeded that of any other group of insects both in abundance and 
variety. One of the principal families represented was the Pen- 
tatomide (stink bug) of which more than fifteen species were 
taken. This group will form the subject of a special report in 
the near future. 
The cleared spaces in and near the woods offered good eollect- 
ing grounds for butterflies. On ascending Monk’s Hill from 
the south side by one of the numerous paths, great numbers of 
gaily colored hesperids, nymphalids and lyecenids were to be 
found in the vicinity of a little truck patch where squashes were 
growing. I do not believe that I have ever seen so many butter- 
flies in so small an area as at this place on July 1st. 
In the low cultivated fields along the hills great numbers of 
larve and adults of the boll worm (Heliothis sp.) and the cut- 
worm (Prodenia sp.) were found and some injury was being 
done to various plants. Very often moths of different kinds 
would be attracted by the lights in our quarters at night, the 
most notable of these being several forms of Protoparce and a 
specimen or two of the interesting blackish noctuid, the ‘‘black 
witeh’’ (Erebus odora). 
In low wooded areas under dried leaves we found consider- 
able numbers of a large brachyelytrous cockroach; but in reach- 
ing out quickly to seize these agile fellows it was necessary for 
the collector to look sharply in order to make sure that a scor- 
pion or two did not lurk close enough to be dangerous. Centi- 
pedes were not uncommon under stones in moist places and a 
good sized tarantula would now and then be taken, while his 
smaller brethren were not at all uncommon. 
