SECTION IV. — LE(;iSLATION IN OTHER COUNTRIKS. 15 



ST. LUCIA. 



On the 21st July, 1917 I made a close search on grass m the vicinity 

 of Castries and in the sugar cane fields of Cul-de-Sac Estate and found 

 no froghoppers. 



Mr. Brooks, the Agricultural Superintendent, who is familiar with 

 the insect in Trinidad, has seen nothing of it in St. Lucia, nor has it 

 been found by either Messrs. H. A. Ballou or J. C. Hutson in their 

 entomological visits to the island. 



The evidence is inconclusive, but it is very probable that the insect 

 does not occur. 



MARTINIQUE. 



From July 15th to 20th 1917 I visited Martinique and made a close 

 search for froghoppers both in cane and grass. The vicinity of Fort-de- 

 France, the cane-fields in the district of Petit Bourg in the S juth of the 

 island, and also round St. Pierre in the North were examined but 

 nowhere were any found. 



Mr. Bovell of the Department of Agriculture of Barbados, also 

 visited the Petit Bourg district in May 1917 and during an investigation 

 of root disease of sugar-cane, saw no trace of froghopper. 



Mr. P. L. Guppy was also in the island in 1914 and Mr. J. B. Rorer 

 in 1915 and neither saw any trace of the insect. 



Neither the Director of Agriculture, M. Bassieres, nor his assistant, 

 nor any planter to whom I spoke, had any knowledge of froth on the 

 roots of the grass. 



It is improbable that any sugar-cane froghopper exists in Martinique. 



DOMINICA. 



The only known froghopper of the genus Tomasjns in the Lesser 

 Antilles North of St. Vincent is Tomasjns dominicana (Plate I Fig. 14) 

 described by Distant (1909 p. 187). It is about the same size as the 

 Trinidad froghopper, but the wings, which are dark brown, are each 

 marked with five reddish spots. 



No locality or date is given in the original descrijjtion but three 

 specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, are 

 labelled Long Ditton and Roseau, ISfch to 23rd June, 1911, aiul three 

 specimens in the collection of the New United States National Museum 

 in Washington are marked June-July 1913. About 20 specimens in the 

 collection of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies 

 are marked June and July 1902 and October and November 1903. 



Nothing is at present known of its habits and in its structure it does 

 not very closely resemble T. sacchaHna or the other grass feeding frog- 

 hoppers. It is possible that it may feed on some shrub as does 

 Tomaspis rubra in Trinidad. 



CUBA. 



In 1916 about 700 acres of pasture lauds covered with Paral grass 

 [Panii'Aim numidianiiin) at La Horqueta estate, eight leagues South- 

 east of the city of Caniinguey, were dried up and destroyed by a frog- 

 hopper Tomaspis {Monecphord) hicinctws, locally knowi\ as the ''saUvita" 

 (Plate I Fig. 18). P. Oarilin (1917) reported on a visit to this estate, 

 and from his account the following particulars are obtained. 



The insect was first seen on September 1910 on sugar-cane in 

 Perico, Matanzas. In September 1915 it was again foand in abundance 



