. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 74 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. February l'G, INSECT NOTES. INSECTS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. Au interesting collection of insects has been received from Mr. I'lshlock, Curator of the E.^perinient Station, Virgin Islands. The following deal with some of the more important of these. A NkW liftBEE, This insect, Balocera ruf/ra, L., was the subject of the Insect Notes in the Agricultural Ne»:f its occurrence in St. Croix and Trinidad. C)EIGISAL HOME. Batoceva rubra belongs to a genus of insects found in the Far
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 74 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. February l'G, INSECT NOTES. INSECTS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. Au interesting collection of insects has been received from Mr. I'lshlock, Curator of the E.^perinient Station, Virgin Islands. The following deal with some of the more important of these. A NkW liftBEE, This insect, Balocera ruf/ra, L., was the subject of the Insect Notes in the Agricultural Ne»:f its occurrence in St. Croix and Trinidad. C)EIGISAL HOME. Batoceva rubra belongs to a genus of insects found in the Far East, which is not represented in the New World. The genus Batocera is found in India, Ceylon, throughout Polynesia to Australia, Africa and Mauritius. The species under consideration, which enjoys the widest geographical distribution, of any species of the genus, is recorded from India, Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, the peninsula of ilalacca, the island of Bourbon, Mauritius and Africa. occuREEXCE IN NEW WOULD. Its Occurrence in the New World would appear to be the result of very recent intro-, duction. The first authentic record of its presence in this part of the world is chat given in the Aiiricultural News article referred to above—viz., St. , in 1911, where it is stated to have been known for about three years The record of two specimens having been collected in the West Indies in 1906 by an officer of the L'nited States Bureau of Entomology was not verified, because the species being entirely of eastern occurre'nce, the record was regarded with doubt. At the present time Jt. rubra is known to occur in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola in the Virgin Islands, in addition to the one record of its capture in Trinidad. FOOD PL.\j« In the Virgin Islands this insect is stated to attack a considerable number of plants: mango, avocado, papaw, banana, Fictis elaxtica, Ficus sp., hog plum, and a tree known as Bois Hot (Ochroma Lagopux). In Ceylon this insect
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