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Thc "Vaquita verde," Exophthalmodes rosei-pes Chev. , also did some 
damage to foliage in the main citrus section during the summer and, ac- 
cording to one of the best growers, caused some injury to the fruits in 
June, 1931, in his locality. 
A thrips, Frankliniella ( Futhrips ) insular is_ Franklin, was found in- 
festing pigeon oea blossoms at Mayaguez January' 2, 1931 (H. Morrison det.). 
Larvae of Heliothj.s virescens Fab. t.' ©re repeatedly found eating large 
holes into the green pods of pigeon peas. 
The cottony-cushion scale ( leery a purchasi Mask.) (Morrison det.) 
was found lightly infesting 50 rose bushes at Santurce February 24 (J. 
Luciano) . 
A leaf-footed plant bug, Leptoglossus gonagra Fab., did considerable 
injury from the latter part of November into December in a 55-acre grape- 
fruit grove at Pueblo Vie jo. At the same time about 10 acres of grape- 
fruit were attacked a little west of Bayamon and caused about 10 per cent 
of the fruits to drop. The bugs were present in enormous numbers and were 
breeding on the wild balsam apple, Momordica ch&rantia L. , which was very 
common in the grove. The adults flew to the ripening fruits and made 
small feeding punctures under which the nulp became broken down and often 
had a slightly rotten odor and a bitter "taste. By the first of January 
all trouble was over and it was reported that very few of the bugs could 
be found in either grove. 
The sc.arabaeid beetle Ligyrus tumulosus Burn. . was common at lights 
early in June at Aguirre, but scarce the end of the month. 
A thrips, Meso thrips ficorum Morchal (also Gynaiko thrips uzeli Zlmm. ), 
was observed abundant as usual in several parts of the Island, often con- 
siderably curling the leaves of West Indian laurel, Ficus nitida . 
The coffee shade tree ant or "hormiguilla, " Myrmelachi sta ambigua 
For el var. ravulorum Wheeler, was generally present throughout the coffee- 
growing sections, but during the last year and since the hurricane of 1928 
it has been less abundant and injurious than formerly, Spring to the destruc- 
tion of so many of the large coffee shade trees; the ants are less abund- 
ant or at least less in evidence during wet weather. 
A stratiomyiid fly, Neorondania chalybea Weid. (C. T. Greene det.), 
was taken on a potato leaf at Cidra, February 18,. 1931 (Faxon and Mills). 
Previously listed only from Rio Piedras. 
An adult of ffezara viridula L. was taken feeding on a -oepper fruit at 
Arecibo, February 24, 1931 (s. G. Anderson and A. S. Mills; Barber det.). 
Nezara viridula L. was observed injuring about 20 peracent of tomato 
fruits in a garden patch at Rio Piedras in December (A. S. Mills). 
