BULLETIN 885, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
in 1915 he wrote two papers 
(2) and (3), indicating therein 
that it was rather widespread 
over the island of Jamaica. 
In February, 1916, Patricio 
Cardin, entomologist of the 
experiment station of Cuba, 
sent in specimens from Guan- 
tanamo, Cuba, and in the 
same month L. J. K. Brace 
sent in specimens from Nas- 
sau, New Providence, Ba- 
hama Islands. In 1 91 7 John- 
ston (16, 17) showed that the 
insect occurred in Cuba, at 
Guantanamo and Habana. 
This same year Ritchie (34) 
states that ' ' the entire island 
[Jamaica] is becoming gener- 
ally involved." In an un- 
published report of Novem- 
ber, 1917, in the bureau files, 
Harold Morrison gives an ac- 
count of the black fly in 
Jamaica and Cuba, and for 
the first time called attention 
to the fact that this insect 
was established in the Canal 
Zone and the adjoining parts 
of the Republic of Panama, 
having been found by him on 
citrus and mango trees in 
Cristobal, Ancon, and Balboa 
in the former place and in 
Colon and Panama in the lat- 
ter, in August of that year. 
In the early part of 1918 Dr. 
W. M. Mann, of the Bureau 
of Entomology, found the 
pest in the vicinity of Santi- 
ago de Cuba, thereby estab- 
lishing a new Cuban distribu- 
tion record. In his explora- 
tions of the British West 
