. A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. logy: The clover-leaf beetle, H. punctata, is very familiar to most entomologists in this country. The other species are of similar form but dif-ferent colors of brown, gray, or green. The larvae feed externally on the leaves and pupate in silken cocoons. Bargagli, P. Rassegna Biologica Rincofori Europei, 1883-1887. COCONUT PALM. (Cocos nucifera. Family Palmacese.) A large palm cultivated for ornament and for its edible fruit. It is grown in Floridaand California as an ornamental tree. (See Palms
. A manual of dangerous insects likely to be introduced in the United States through importations. logy: The clover-leaf beetle, H. punctata, is very familiar to most entomologists in this country. The other species are of similar form but dif-ferent colors of brown, gray, or green. The larvae feed externally on the leaves and pupate in silken cocoons. Bargagli, P. Rassegna Biologica Rincofori Europei, 1883-1887. COCONUT PALM. (Cocos nucifera. Family Palmacese.) A large palm cultivated for ornament and for its edible fruit. It is grown in Floridaand California as an ornamental tree. (See Palms.) COFFEE. {Coffea arabica Linnaeus; Coffea liberica Hiern. Family Rubiaceae.) Coffee is grown in Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, and many of theislands of the Pacific and Atlantic. Although not grown in the United States proper,it is an important product of Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the PliiUppines. The importa-tions of the beans into this country are enormous. Where beans or seedlings areimported into the Territories above mentioned, there is danger of introducing fiG. 34.—Imported clover weevil (Miccotrogus piclTostris): Adult, enlarged. (Original, Walton.) 62 A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. A. BETTER KNOWN COFFEE INSECTS. Tetranychus bioculatus Wood-Mason.(Coffee Red Spider. Tetranychidae; Acarina.) Host: Coffee, tea, tomato, Firmiana colorata, Anthocephalus cadamba. Injury: Injures plant by sucking juices. May be easily imported on nursery stockand might attack other crops if introduced. Description and biology: A tiny red spider very like the common red spider of thiscountry and likely to be as dangerous. SoRAUER, P. Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten, 3d ed., 1913. vol. 3, p. , E. C. Indian Museum Notes, 1896, vol. 3, pp. 48-56, 2 figs, Xyleborus coflese Wurth. (Coffee Beetle. Scolytidse; Coleoptera.) Hosts: Coffea arabica, C. robusta, and C. liberica, Erythrina lithosperma, Melia azeda-rach, Cacao, Cinchona ledgeriana. Occasionally fe
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