INSECT CONDITIONS IN HAITI FOPi THE MONTH OF APPJL, 1932 
Andre Audant 
Service National de la Production Agricole 
Port-au-Prince, Haiti 
Considerable damage to coffee plants is reported from the southern 
part of Haiti by the coffee cricket ( Chremon repentinus Piehn). The green 
scale ( Coccus viridi s Green) is also present on the leaves. 
A yellowish scale, Aspidiotus destructor Sign., is severely damaging 
coconuts. 
The bean leafhopper ( Empoasca fabalis De Long) is found on beans and 
is causing considerable damage in transmitting the "yellows" disease. 
Swarms of termites, mostly Nasuti termes morio Latr. and Cryptotermes 
brevi s Walk. , have -been emerging all through the rainy days of the latter 
part of the month. 
The striped citrus curculio ( Prepodes 4-vittatus Oliv.) was feeding 
on the citrus leaves of trees located on the Experimental Ground of the 
Damien Station, together with two other beetles Ir.chnopus atramentarius 
Gyll. and L. proteus Oliv. 
Young papayas, especially of the larger varieties, are infested with 
larvae of the papaya fruit fly ( Toxptrypana curvicauda Gerst.). The flies 
are not very abundant, since the laborers are picking up the infested 
fruits to horn them. 
Citrus fruits in Port-au-Prince have been quite severely infested with 
a black fly ( Aleurodicus minimus Quaint.), the purple scale ( Lepido saphes 
beckii Newm.), and the citrus mealybug ( Pseudococcus citri Hisso). 
The 'Jest Indian*- fruit flies (An astrepha striata Schin. ) are infest- 
ing mangoes. The infestation, rather light on the better varieties, is 
quite severe on the common so-called "Mango Jeremie." 
The palm leaf skeletonizer ( Homaledra sabalella Chamb. ) is infesting 
the leaves of the latanier (Sabal doming; ensi s ) in the Cul de Sac Plain. 
The melon aphid ( Aphis. .~oss.vpii Glov.) has been reported from many 
melon patches in the vicinity of Port-au-Prince. 
