. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 250 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. August 7, 1909. INSECT NOTES. New Species of Cecidomyiidae. The tiower-bud maggot of cr>tton {Covtarinla gossypli), A\hichhas twice apfieared at Antigua as a serious pest, and which has also occurred at Mont- serrat, has formed t!ie subjt^ct of several articles in the Aijrlcultnral Xeirs (see V'ul. VII. p. 155, Vol. VIII, pp. 10, 58), and of a paper in the Wr>.f IikUiiu Bulletin (Vol. X, p. 1) by the Entomologist on the staff of the Imperial Deparinient of Agriculcure. The flower-bu
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 250 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. August 7, 1909. INSECT NOTES. New Species of Cecidomyiidae. The tiower-bud maggot of cr>tton {Covtarinla gossypli), A\hichhas twice apfieared at Antigua as a serious pest, and which has also occurred at Mont- serrat, has formed t!ie subjt^ct of several articles in the Aijrlcultnral Xeirs (see V'ul. VII. p. 155, Vol. VIII, pp. 10, 58), and of a paper in the Wr>.f IikUiiu Bulletin (Vol. X, p. 1) by the Entomologist on the staff of the Imperial Deparinient of Agriculcure. The flower-bud maggot was first described and given a name by Dr. E. P. Felt, New York State Entomologist. During the investigations which -were carried out in Antigua in .January oi the present year, in connexion with the attack of flower-bud maggot, several additional species of closely related flies were obtained. A collection of this material has been studied by Dr. Felt, who has given names to three species new to science. The following notes may be of interest to the readers of the A' A''ews. Only one species of flower-bud maggot been obtained fi'om the cotton, although the buds and flowers of both the wild cotton and Sea Island cotton have been collected and flies reared from them. Caravonica cotton is also attacked, probably by the same species, but the adult flies have not been studied. by coming in contact with the film of oil generally to be seen on the outside of kerosene lamps. This species has been named Lohodiplosis spinosa. Another new species of this family has Ijeen recorded from Barbados, the maggot living under the bark of the' twigs of ilango {Maw/if em indiai). Grafted mangos seem to be the more often attacked, and these when young are often seriously injured and sometimes killed Ijy the attacks of the maggot. This insect has been named Asi/iiaida MdHfjifeirie. Previous to the appearance of the flower-bud maggot in Antigua in the season of 1907-8, o
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