Louisiana 
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PURPLE SCALE ( Lepidosaphes beeki i Newm.) 
T. H. Jones (May 1?): Infested material was received frcm /mite 
on April 10 and from Lake Charles on April 20. 
CITRUS '"'KITEFLY (Di^leurbces citri 
i] .) 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (May 15): Infested orange leaves were received frcr 
Lake Charles on April 20, and infested leaves of Cape Jasirine from 
Alexandria on April 6. 
CI2RUS THRIPS ( Scirtothrixs citri Moulton) 
California Calif ornia Weekly News Letter Vol. 5, No. 11: All available spray- 
ing equipment is now in operation in the citrus gloves in Tulare 
County for the control of citrus thripc and citricola scale. The 
latter are now natching in lar-^e numbers and a season of generally 
severe infestations is indicated. 
COFFEE 
THE HORFIGUTLLA ( Mvrmelachisti arbigua ra-ulorum Wh.) 
Porto Rico R. E. Danforth (May 19): The "hormiguilla" , "vrrcla-hist a ambigua 
ramulorum ¥h« r considered the worst insect enemy of coffee in Porto 
$ico, is very abundant in the ceffee plantations of this region. 
It is a small ant, about one-twelfth inch long, with light "crown 
thorax and legs, and shiny black head and abdomen. It mokes tunnels 
both in coffee trees and ceffee shade-trees, being here particularly 
fond of the "guana" f Inga laurina, although it attacks trees of 
several distinct families... It attends a pink mealy bug, Crvntostigma 
ingae Ferris, in its tunnels in the living coffee twigs. In the 
same green twig I have found ail stages of the mealy bug and larvae 
and pupae of the ant, in different chambers not far apart. The 
principal chambers are at the joints, just below the smallest or 
fruit-bearing laterals. They also tunnel in dead wood, both high 
and low, in which they also rear their young. 
GUAVA 
GUAVA LEAFROLLER f Attelabus s exrrac ulatus Chev.) 
Porto Rico R. E. Danforth (May 19): The attelabid beetles, Attelabus 
sexmaculatus Chev., or guava leaf- roller, is not only abundant on 
guava but is also conspicuously mutilating the leaves of one of the 
commonest roadside shade trees here, the "almendro", Terminalia 
c atappa L. 
