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each dirpctioi-, the farthest south being at Trouin 9 "beyond Leoge.ne 
(a determination by a Mr, Smith at Illr.neis), and also at Cape 
Haitian en the north coast* This record is frets the Federal 
Horti cultural Board, an inspector of which held "up a shipment cf 
pineapples from this port because of its being infested with ants. 
The outbreak of Alabama rhich I reported may have "teen preceded 
by a previous generation in the same fields, but the manager of the 
plantation had not noted it. The exceptional character of it 
was that 1> occurred in the prying; for, so far as we know, out- 
breaks always have occurred m the fall as far back as people in 
Haiti remember. This is quite different from the conditions in 
Porto Hico, where my observations are that some years there are no 
Alabama at all and sometimes none for two or three years, or 
possibly longer. 
TOBACCO 
Florida 
Florida 
POU^C TUBER tfORtf ( Phthor imaea onerculol la Zell tf ) 
F, S« ChamberlJn (July 13): At Quincy a very few split wcrra 
larvae have been observed in tobacco fields the past few days e 
So far the infestation is cf no economic importance, 
TOMATO WORM (Protoparcc sext a Joh, ) 
F, S,,Charaberlin (July 21): At Quincy the infestation during the 
month of July was much less than usual. 
Loui siana 
Porto Hico 
Haiti 
SUGARCANE 
SUGAR CAKE BORER ( Diatraea s accharali-- Fab.) 
. T, S, Holloway and W, E, Haley .(June 30): On siugar plantations 
within UO miles of New Orleans the writers fouv.d the infestation 
by the sugarcane moth borer to be slight in general. 
All APHID (Sipha flay a- Forbes) 
Arthur H. Rosenfeld (July 9): • labile on tha north coast tne attacks 
of this aphid in damaging numbers are confined almost exclusively 
to Uba under the drier conditions of th-^ irrigated south coast 
region; while Uba* is still the decidedly preferred host, some 
damage is also seen frequently on the broad=--le?_--e3; high~eucrose 
canes, particularly the popular Barbados Hybrid X*j (12), 
WEST INDIAN CANE IEAFHOPPER- (Sacchr- asydr.a (Delphux) 
sacch.a:. i vo'.a Tel;™.) 
Geo. N, Wolcott (June 23): Last January my attention war directed 
to a field of cane near Leogane which was so heavily infested 
with the West Indian cane leafhopper (fu Igor id) S-iccbarosydne 
( Delphax) saccharivora Westwood, that the cane was considerably 
stunted. After the cane was harvested, the young ratoons were only 
