50 FROG HOPPER BLIGHT OF SUGAR-CANE. 



DAMAGE IN OTHER CONTINENTS. 



In England Aphrophora sp. has been recorded as damaging roses 

 during June and July (Gardener's Chronicle LXV (1919) p. 122) and 

 other species of the same genus occasionally damage pastures. 



In India Cosmocarta relaia is a serious local pest in Mysore and 

 Cooig on .]ak (Artocarpus inteq rifolia) (Fletcher, South Indian Insects 

 p 495) and Machcerota planitae makes calcareous tubes on cotton and 

 frequently stunts its growth {Revieio of Applied Entoynology IV. A. 

 p. 225). 



LEGISLA.TIOX AGAIN'ST THE SPREAD OF THE FROG- 

 HOPPER IN THE WEST INDIES. 



The onh' two islands in the West Indies that have brought in. special 

 quarantine regulations to prevent the introduction of the froghopper are 

 Barbados and St. Lucia. The text of the orders in question is given in 

 full below. 



BARBADOS. 

 Order 



Made by the Governor-in-Executive Committee under Sections 

 45 and 46 of the Trade Act 1910 (1910) 6, prohibiting the 

 importation of Sugar-cane, etc., from South America, 

 Central Amei-ica, British Guiana, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada 

 and St. Croix, and prescribing the conditions under which 

 plants, etc., may be imported from such countries : — 



1. — (1) Sugar cane or any part thereof or any other plant of the 

 order Gramineae or any part thereof, or any growing plant of any other 

 order, or any soil or earth or any goods, packages, articles, coverings or 

 things in which the said sugar-cane or any part thereof or any other 

 plant of the said order or any part thereof or anj- growing plant of any 

 other order may be or may have been packed or otherwise contained 

 shall not be imported or brought into this Island from the following 

 places, viz : — South America, Central America. British Guiana, Trinidad 

 Tobago, Grenada and St. Croix. 



(2) Any plant of the order Gramineae or any part thereof or any 

 plant of any other order or any part thereof in which it is possible for 

 any insect pest of tlie sugar cane to be introduced into the Island (used 

 as food or ije'^ding for any animal) on board any vessel arriving at 

 Barbados, from any country mentioned in the preceding sub-section, shall 

 before such vessel enters the careenage, be thrown over-board and the 

 deck of such vessel be washed. 



(3) Manufactured articles, dried seed or grain, dried stems or 

 leaves of any plant of the order Gramineae such as barley, guinea corn, 

 maize, rice, rye, o^ts, wheat and hay or any other article which, in the 

 opinion of the Superintendent of Agriculture is not likely to introduce 

 the Iroghoj^per, (Tomaspis varia Fabr.), the giant moth borer, (Castnia 

 licus, Drury) or any other insect pest of the sugar-cane shall be 

 exempted from the operation of this order. 



2- If the Superintendent of Agriculture is satisfied that there is an 

 outbreak of any fungoid disease or any insect pest in any country, he 

 may, if he think fit, fumgiate or disinfect, or both fumigate and disinfect 

 or order the destruction of any plant or part thereof or any article or 

 thing in which it is possible for such fungoid disease or insect pest to 

 be introduced into this Island. The destruction of any such plant or 



