228 BTJREAtJ OF PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
I'.khisii BAHAMA Islands 
The survey of this group, May 28 •*'><>. 19&L, was for various reasons limited 
to the section immediately surrounding the city of Nassau and the Blue Hill 
region, both on the island of New Providence. Due to previous hurricanes ;md 
other agricultural difficulties, there was but little of fruit and vegetables to be 
seen, scarcely more than 100 fruits of the mango being encountered during the 
entire time spent on this island. Most of the fruits consumed were grown on 
the neighboring islands and in certain of the West Indies, viz, Cuba, Jamaica. 
Haiti, eta 
The only trypetid found on the island of New Providence as a result of this 
survey was the papaya fruit fly, Toxotrypand curvvcauda Gerst. Fifty percent 
of the papayas examined were found to be infested with the larvae of this fruit 
fly, and several adults were taken. 
Among economic insects other than fruit fly observed on the island, the 
most injurious were the citrus black fly, Alcurocanthus toofflwni Ashby, and 
the curculionid, Pachnaeus (?) pslttacus Olivier, on nearly all citrus plants. 
The scale insects. Coccus hespcrhlum L. and C. virldis Green, were also quite 
destructive to citrus foliage. The latter insect was also found to be damaging 
about 12 percent of the leaves of guava. Okra was attacked by Nezara viridula 
L. Cornstalks and ears of corn were riddled with borings by Heliothis obsoleta 
Fab. and Laphygma sp., and the leaves of corn were being fed upon by the 
Mollusca. CapoUs varians, and the Coreidae, Phthia picta Drury. Pigeonpea 
pods were heavily infested with E. obsoleta, as well as a species of Fundella, 
and 10 percent of the sapodilas from the neighboring island of Eleuthera had 
scales of Aspidiotus lataniac Sign. Squash was being bored into by ;i species of 
Diaphania. while cabbage was fed upon by Plutella maculipenniis ('urt. and 
Mur<jantia hist r'n mica Hahn, etc. 
Jamaica, Ukitish Wkst Indies 
Heavy rains during the period of the survey of Jamaica, June 2-20, 1931, made 
it difficult to reach many districts, but the following places were visited: King- 
ston and its immediate vicinity, Hope Gardens, Spanish Town, Papine, Con- 
stance Springs. Cinchona Gardens, Pleasant Hill. Temple Hall, Castleton, Lin- 
stead, Moneague, St. Anns Bay, Dry Harbour, Falmouth, Montego Bay, Phoenix, 
Caladupa. (ringer Hill, Lacovia, Santa Cruz. Mandeville, Williamsfield, Perus, 
May Pen. Hartlands, Chapelton, Williamsfred, and Manchester Pastures. 
Examinations were made of all fruits and vegetables found to be in a 
susceptible stage of maturity in the field and in the various public markets 
visited. The following fruits were encountered : Bananas, plantains, papayas, 
mangoes, soursops, tangerines, limes, guavas. oranges, grapefruit, rose apples, 
sour oranges, pineapples, breadfruit, star-apples, purple hog plums, immature 
avocados; cashew fruits, and akee (BUghia sapida). Vegetables seen were 
cucumbers, tomatoes, cbayotes. okra, peppers, eggplants, beets, turnips, sweet- 
potatoes, yams, green peas, string beans, pumpkins, onions, scallops, carrots. 
potatoes, cabbages, and lima beans. 
The following fruit-fly infestations were found : 226 larvae of AnastrepJta sp. 
in mangoes, purple hog plums, guavas, rose apples, and sapodillas. and I.S 
adults Of Anasttepha sp. were successfully reared from larvae taken in mangoes 
and purple hog plums. Four adults of Avastrcpha sp. were collected on the 
leaves of coeoa and mango at Hope Gardens, and 70 adults of Aitastrcpha 
acidu.sa Walk., on the leaves of bitter almond, akee. cocoa, mango, and purple 
hog plums were also taken at that place. At Cinchona. .°» adults and 2 puparia 
of an apparently unusual trypetid were taken on the leaves and buds of a 
sweetpotato vine. Ipom&ea jamaicensis. 
Among the more noteworthy injurious insects other than fruit fly taken in 
Jamaica were the following* The citrus black fly, Aleurocanthiis iroglumi 
on citrus foliaue and on that of surinani-chorry. the latter also being found 
attacked by a species of P.scudojxirlatoria. I'rcpodc.s vitfatu* L. and Pachnaeus 
citri Mrshl. were also found to be especially injurious to citrus plants. 
Bcphrata ciihciisis Aslnn. was found in seeds of custard-apples. Larvae of a 
species of Olethreutidae were found in guavas, and Sioiixt stoartzii Thunb. was 
devouring the leaves and stems of the sweetpotato. Laehnopus aurifer White 
was taken on the foliage of mango, Crotalaria, and many other plants. The 
pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella Saund., was found in cotton bolls, and 
