38 EEPOKT OF SEAECH FOR ENEMIES OF CITRUS WHITE FLY. 
at Port Said and Naples. Careful prearrangements- enabled good 
connections to be made at both, of these ports, so that little delay 
was experienced throughout the voyage. New York was reached on 
November 28, exactly one month out from Bombay. 
The writer accompanied the shipment and gave it his personal 
attention throughout the long voyage. The cases were kept on deck 
except for the last three days out of New York when cold and stormy 
weather necessitated their being placed below. 
CONDITION OF THE NATURAL ENEMIES ON ARRIVAL AT 
ORLANDO. FLA. 
The cases were shipped from New York to Florida by express, 
arriving at Orlando on December 2, when they were immediately 
taken to the Government laboratory. An examination of the con- 
tents was at once instituted. The ultimate result was the recovery 
of 28 active and healthy lady-beetles (Cryptognatha flavescens) and 8 
adult Prospaltella lahorensis. A large number of living Prospaltella 
in both the adult and pupal states were left in the cases. 
This condition of the shipment was all that could be desired. A 
sufficient number of both the predatory enemy and the true internal 
parasite had arrived in a Hving condition for breeding purposes. 
Thus it seemed to the writer that his mission had been successfully 
terminated . 
CONDITIONS AT ORLANDO, FLA., WHEN THE NATURAL ENEMIES 
ARRIVED. 
The writer's return in December was unfortunate but unavoidable. 
White flies in Florida at this time are in a practically dormant pupal 
state and continue in this condition during the winter months. 
Although the winter weather in central Florida causes such tender 
insects as the white fly to remain inactive, the more resistant species, 
such as the Coccinellidse, are not completely driven into winter 
quarters, but continue to be more or less active during many of the 
warmest days. 
Mr. R. Wooldridge, an agent of this bureau then stationed at 
Orlando, had on hand a large number of young orange trees infested 
with the white fly for use in feeding the natural enemies. All these 
insects, however, were in the pupal stage and then not suitable as food 
for either of the two introductions, which attack only the younger 
stages of the white fly. 
LOSS OF THE NATURAL ENEMIES. 
Without any experience to act upon, it was not easy to determine 
the best method of carrying these parasitic and predaceous enemies 
through the winter. In view of the writer's acquaintance with the 
