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The cabbage looper ( Plutella roaculrpennis Curtis) ras severely 
infesting a fairly large garden patch of cabbage at Aguirre on April 4. 
(M.D.L. and A. S.M. ) 
A leaf miner, presumably Agromyz a iraequalis Mall., ras fairly 
common on cabbage plants at the station. 
The Agricultural Agent at Carolina, Ismael Flores, has reported 
many plantings of s^eet potato as badly infested oy the s ,_ eet potato 
reevil ( Cyla s formic arius Fab. ) during the month in his section, -dth a, 
considerable resulting loss in the crop,, 
About 1.0 per cent of the leaves of sveet potato in a small garden 
patch at Patillas on April 3 -ere shoeing mines by the sreet potato 
leaf -miner (Ag romy za i-o omcao Frost) (M.D.L. and A. S.M. ) 
It ^as reported the last of April that during February and March, 
o^-ing to a bad infestation of this common pod borer (U tetheisa ornatrix L. ) 
a large grower at Palo Seco ^as able to obtain only about 7 tons of 
seed from 60 acres of Crotalaria. 
A leaf tier. ( Dichomeris pjoeratus Wlsm. ) has been scarce on 
alfalfa on experimental plots at the sub-station at Isabela as compared 
rith a. bad infestation in the soring of 1930, according to a. report from 
L, A. Serrano, Director of the sub-station. 
Several large West Indian laurel trees ( Ficus nitida ) in the Plaza 
at Caguas are badly infested by Gynaik o thrios uzeli Zimm. (G.N. Wolcott, 
M.D.L. and A. S.M. ) and ras common on the same host on several trees in 
the Plaza at Guyama April 14. 
I eery a mons e r rat e ns i s Riley & Horard Fas so abundant on several 
trees ( Ficus nitida ) in the Plaza at Caguas on April 4 that many of the 
lorer trigs were almost defoliated. (G.N.W. , M.D.L., and A. S.M. ) 
In October 1930, M. F. Sein, Jr., found a number of fruits infested 
by the picll'6. ^orm ( Pi aph onia n i tidal is Cramer) at Lares. This Fas 
apparently the first record of a definite locality or food plant for 
this insect in Porto Eico. He states that from October, 1930, to April, 
1931, he has found from 5 to 10 per cevr.t of the fruits infested in the 
market in Eio Piedr'as. On April 27 tro fruits in a small planting at 
the Insular Experiment Station at Eio picdras? ere found infested, one of 
them badly so. 
The cotton leaf vonn (Ala bama argillr.cea Hon. ) ras reported by 
E. P. Eorke irom one cotton plantation at:Iauco during March but he 
stated that ho kno^s of no infestation in the South Coast during April. 
On April 18 the Agricultural Agent at Carolina, Mr. Florcs, reported an 
infestation during the first v^eek in April on 12 acres in the Barrio Cacao 
and another on 8 acres in the Barrio Canocanillas but those rerc pioaiptly 
handled by spraying. Mr. Eorke also reported a light infestation April20-.25 
