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INSECT CONDITIONS IF PORTO RICO DURING FEBRUARY AND MARCH, 1932* 
Um D. Leonard 
Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedra-s, Porto Rico. 
The sugarcane scale ( Aspidiotus sac char i Ckll.) was moderately common 
on a large lot of Uba'-cane being loaded at the dock on Vieques Island,' on 
March 23. 
a. sugarcane mealybug, Pseudo coccus sacchari Ckll., was found moderately 
common on both Uba and Crystalina cane in several sections examined on 
Vieques Island on an' inspection trip on I/larch 23. 
A mealybug, Pseudococcus boninsis Kuwana ( calceolariae of authors), 
was not uncommon on sugarcane in several localities on Vieques Island 
examined in company with C.. E". Pemberton on March 23. 
Larvae of a curculionid beetle, Lechriops psidii Marshall (Buchanan & 
BBving det.) found in mummied guavas in Bayamon on January 11. (C. G. Anderson;') 
The type is from Porto Rico and was described from specimens causing mummied 
guavas; this is the second record from the Island. 
The melon aphid ( Aphis gossypii Glov.)was heavily infesting the tender 
twigs and leaves of many young grapefruit trees at Anasco on January 27 
(A. G. Harley) . Apparently this is the first 'record of injury or even - 
occurrence on citrus in Porto Rico. It was also heavily infesting a 2-acre 
planting of cassaba melons at Loiza on January 8. 
White grubs, Phyllophaga spp., were reported on April 13 as having 
severely injured a number of pineapple fields at Vega Baja and Corozal 
during November and December, 1931. (E. Rivera) 
•'The grapevine aphid, Aphi s illinoisensis Shimer, was present in small 
numbers on several vines in the arbor of the Hotel Melia 1 s patio at ponce 
early in March. 
A bean lacebug, Corythucha gossypii Fab. (K. G. Barber det.) was 
heavily infesting the foliage of 20 papaya trees at the Substation at Isabela 
on March 8. (C. G. Anderson.) 
♦Correction: Typographical errors led to the publication of Smooasca fabanae 
and S^ Jabanae in Porto Rico in the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin during 1931. 
There are no such species.. All these records refer to Ej. Fab alls DeLong. 
