wide mouth over which he put a gauze and as the peach decayed the 

 maggots grew and soon hatched out flies." 



Later letters from Mr. McCallan accompanied further specimeus 

 of diseased peaches and conveyed the information that the crop has 

 been infested in the Bermudas for about twenty-five years ; that many 

 persons have cut down their trees which are now becoming very 

 scarce. Prior to this, however, they were most abundant and could be 

 looked upon as almost growing wild. The peach is the first tree to 

 blossom in that locality, beginning about the last week in January. 

 Soon after the fruit appears and when about one- third grown it is punct- 

 ured by the fly. It continues to grow, however, but instead of ripening 

 it suddenly becomes quite soft and decayed and drops from the tree 

 upon the ground, fall of maggots and perfectly useless. 



Examination of the maggots found in the fruit first sent by Mr. Mc 

 Callan showed that they were nearly full grown and resembled that 

 figured at Fig. 1, e. The larva is white or pale yellowish, the mandibles 

 black, the anal respiratory tubes projected, trilobed and pale brown at 

 tip. They were placed in a jar and soon -left the fruit, entering the 

 ground and transforming to pale yellow puparia from one fourth to one 

 inch below the surface of the ground. The first peaches were received 

 April 2.3, 1390, and on May 9 sixteen adult flies issued, and upon 

 careful comparison with figures and descriptions of Geratitis capitata 

 they proved to be identical. 



The figure well represents the appearance of the fly and no technical 

 description is necessary. The general color is yellow in both sexes and 

 the markings vary from dusky to black. Strikingly characteristic are 

 the two peculiar spatula-like hairs upon the head of the male, shown 

 at Fig. l,b,c. 



As we wrote to Mr. McCallan under date of May 13, soon after breed- 

 ing the first adults, the best remedy which can be suggested at this 

 time will consist in feeding or otherwise destroying the frnit imme- 

 diately after it falls to the ground. This should be done before they have 

 time to leave the fruit and crawl off under sticks and stones or under 

 the surface of the ground to pupate. The matter is somewhat compli- 

 cated, however, for the reason that the insect is so far known in the Ber- 

 mudas only in the spring months, and, as our breeding has indicated, 

 the flies appear in May, and we know nothing further of them until they 

 oviposit the following February or March. 



With our knowledge of the habits of the insect, derived from writings 

 of those who have mentioned it as an orange pest, it seems altogether 

 likely that there is more than one generation and that the flies issuing 

 from peaches in May oviposit in some other fruit, and in this event the 

 destruction of the peaches will only prove a partial remedy, unless it 

 should turn out that a generation in the peach at this time is necessary 



