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Aula caspi s pentag ona (Targ. ) occurs in several of the West Indies, 
including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and in Bermuda, Canal Zone, 
Parana in Brazil, Ceylon, and South Africa. 
Pinn aspi s minor (Mask. ) is moderately injurious in Cuba, Bahia in 
Brazil, the Piura Valley of Peru, and the Seychelles Islands. P. aspidistrae 
g ;ossypii (Newst.) has been recorded from the Belgian Congo. 
The following miscellaneous scale insects have been recorded: Fu lvin - 
ari a grabhaini Ckll., in the Seychelles Islands; P. floccifera (Westw.), oc- 
casionally observed on leaves in Egypt; Cerop lastes rusc i (L.), in Morocco; 
C occus hespe ridum L. , in Bermuda and Morocco; C hi o naspis citri Comst., in 
British Guiana; Phena caspis eugeniae (Mask.), in Australia; Lepidosaphes 
ulmi (L.), in Egypt and Palestine; Chrysomphalus aonidum (L,), in Algeria; 
Chry somphal us dic tyospermi (Morg.), in Cuba; I cerya purchasi Mask., in 
Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Egypt, Palestine, Australia, and New Zealand; 
I- a egy ptiaca (Dougl.), in small numbers in Egypt; Lich tensia viburni 
Sign., in Devon and Cornwall in England; Pseudococcus adonidum (L. ) , in 
Morocco; P. virgatus (Ckll.), in India and the Philippines; P. filament o sus 
(Ckll.), sometimes, though rarely, found in French Equatorial Africa; Phena - 
coccus hirsutus Green, in Egypt; and Laccifer lacca (Kerr.), in Assam. 
The following have been intercepted at the ports of entry in the 
United States: Sa isse tia hemisphae rica (Targ.) from England and Germany; 
S- oleae (Bern.) from Holland and Italy; Protopulvinari a pyriformis (Ckll.) 
from Germany; Cocc us h esperidum L. from England, France, Germany, Italy, and 
Japan; Ao nidiella aurantii (Mask. ) and Aspidiotus destructo r Sign, from Co- 
lombia; Aonidiell a o rien t alis (Newst.) from China; Pseudococcus citri 
(Risso) from Bermuda and England; P. maritimus (Ehrh.) from England; and P. 
comstocki (Kuw. ) from Japan. 
The most destructive species belonging to the order of beetles is the 
scolytid Xyleb orus forni ca tus Eich. This insect injures the castor-bean 
plant seriously by boring holes in the stems of the living plant. Because 
of the economic importance of tea, that plant is considered the major food 
plant, but the castor-bean is the true host plant; it is attacked in higher 
altitudes than tea can be grown. Experiments were carried on in regard to 
planting castor-beans in the tea plantations in India as a catch crop, but 
it did not prove practical, as the insects established in early maturing 
castor-beans, on emergence, fly back to the tea. The insect is widely 
distributed in the southern peninsula of India, Ceylon, Bengal, and Java. 
Ste phanodere s se riat us Eich. has been recorded from the husks of the 
seed in Bahia, Brazil. Phy to rus dilatatus Jac . attacks the leaves in the 
Malay Peninsula and the Dutch East Indies. 
The leaf beetles Nodonota irazuensi s (Jac), N. late ralis (Jac). 
and C rypto ce phalus trizo natus Suffr. have been recorded from Costa Rica, and 
£• nigrocinc tus Suffr. and Diabroti ca graminea Baly from Puerto Rico. Podo nta 
daghestanic a Reitt. caused 2 percent injury in experimental plots in North 
Caucasus. Monolepta bi fasci ata (Hornst.) occasionally becomes injurious in 
the Philippines. 
