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A nitidulid beetle, Uroohorus humeral is Fab., m a? observed in bitter 
almond ( Terrir.nl i a ca tonne ) fruits and Jobo ( Soondie.s i ulcis ) at Arecibo, 
in October 1931* fa. S. Oakley) 
A leoidooterous shoot borer, Hyorvoyl .-' fror-dolle Zell. (Heinrich det. ) 
was reported on June 11, 1931, as Injuring; to a considerable extant about 
4,000 tre°s planted* "among coffee for shade at Jayuya, and on June 29, 1931, 
1,000 young trees recently planted in a coffee farrr at Ac juntas. In rrid- 
July F. Sein, jr., reported a number of young trees moderately infected 
in the Rural School slanting at Lares. 
. ^Specimens of a rridge, Sciare so., "*hich ; .s a very serious pest of 
rran and toads, w ere found near lights in the vicinity of Isabel?.. The 
nridges first becare noticeably abundant on October 28, rapidly increasing 
in abundance for the next t^-o or three days, and gradually decreasing 
in numbers towards the Tiddle of the month. T'oy again became very 
abundant en November 28, and are still enormously abundant each night 
around lights. (December 7). We eat dinner in the dark, and have entirely 
given up reading at night. 3y keeping - light on the porch "*c arc able to 
manage sorre activities at night. It was to this light that the toads ^ero 
accustomed to. come each night and eat bugs attracted to it, but since the 
plague of rridges, they have ceased to appear, although they ano quite 
abundant in the surrounding region.- The region infested by the rridges is 
known, to .extend as far along the coast on the north as Qucbradillas, but 
I have no inforrra,tion as to their presence south of Aouadilla. The/" ccrre 
rrostly to lights nearer the ground, and people living on the second story 
cf. houses ere little troubled by them. (O.r.T. ) 
To date, "•.'err-any 4, 1932, ^e have had three distinct waves cf 
ab-undanc^dg! Sclera so.; October 28 to November 4, 1931; Uovombcr 28 to 
December 15/; January 7 to January -14, 1932. During this period sere -ere 
to be. found every night, "out in the last veck or two I have noted 
absolutely none at lights. During the periods of raxiruT abundance we 
ate in darkness, even one or two candles en the table attracting too 
" for comfort, despite electric lights blazing on the porch on either 
side cf the dining room. It Fas impossible to prepare food in the kitchen 
after dark, except under the darkness of the ventilating hood. Yet, bad 
as conditions "ere for us on the ground floor, in the adjoining servants' 
Quarters upstairs ever the garage, no rridges ^erc orescni. (G-. IT. '7. ) 
