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SOME JAMAICA INSECTS. 
Mr. C. H. T. Townsend has lately sent us for determination a number 
of interesting insects from Kingston, Jamaica, with notes on their food- 
habits and occurrence. 
From a chrysalis found on Eucalyptus he reared Tortrix rostrana. 
A species of weevil which we have doubtfully referred to Attelabus 
dentipes Fab., was stated to injure the same tree. Apate francisca was. 
found boring in Lagerstremia, and another Ptinid, Dinoderus brevis. 
Horn, in bamboo. A Formicid locally known as the “Tom Raffles 
Ant” proves to be Prenolepis fulva Mayr. An Ephestia represented by 
damaged specimens, but near elutella Huebn., was bred from “ velvet- 
seeds,” the fruit of the old-woman’s tree (Quiina jamaicensis). This is 
probably the species that had damaged the “ velvet-seeds” in the 
Jamaican exhibit at the World’s Fair, as mentioned on a previous page 
of this number. <A similar species, also in too poor condition for iden- 
tification, was reared from cacao beans and is, without doubt, the same 
moth mentioned under 74 in the article on the insects in the foreign 
exhibits at the World’s Fair. 
INSECT NOTES FROM TRINIDAD. 
Mr. J. H. Hart, of the Botanical Department of Trinidad, has begun 
to issue stylograph notes on the line of those which we receive from 
time to time from the curator of the Museum of the Institute of 
Jamaica, and these occasionally take on an entomological aspect. Nos. 
2 and 3, which we have just received from Mr. Hart, refer to a limited 
series of experiments with Attacus cynthia and to the so-called “ Béte 
rouge,” which is apparently the West Indian name for one of the larval 
Trombidiums commonly known as Red Bugs, Jiggers, and Harvest 
Bugs. The species is not determined. 
A COMPETITION IN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 
That very active organization, the Trinidad Field Naturalists’ Club, 
has just instituted a competition in economic entomology, the prizes to. 
be $30 and $20. The prizes are to be given for the best and second 
best essay on economic entomology, each essay to be accompanied by 
collections containing all of the insects mentioned, and essays and col- 
lections to be the property of the Club and to treat only of Trinidad. 
pests. 
GRAIN INSECTS IN SUGAR. 
From Mr, Thomas Nixon, of Zyba, Kans., we have received the larva. 
of Tenebrioides mauritanicus L. found in sugar. Its presence there was 
purely accidental, as the larva is undoubtedly predaceous, feeding upon 
the immature stages of other insects that live in stered grain and simi- 
lar substances. 
