. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. BULLETIN 885, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF in 1915 he wrote two papers (2) and (3), indicating therein that it was rather widespread over the island of Jamaica. In February, 1916, Patricio Cardin, entomologist of the experiment station of Cuba, sent in specimens from Guan- tanamo, Cuba, and in the same month L. J. K. Brace sent in specimens from Nas- sau, New Providence, Ba- hama Islands. In 1917 John- ston (16,17) showed that the insect occurred in Cuba, at Guantanamo and Habana. This same year Ritchie (34) states that'' the


. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. BULLETIN 885, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF in 1915 he wrote two papers (2) and (3), indicating therein that it was rather widespread over the island of Jamaica. In February, 1916, Patricio Cardin, entomologist of the experiment station of Cuba, sent in specimens from Guan- tanamo, Cuba, and in the same month L. J. K. Brace sent in specimens from Nas- sau, New Providence, Ba- hama Islands. In 1917 John- ston (16,17) showed that the insect occurred in Cuba, at Guantanamo and Habana. This same year Ritchie (34) states that'' the entire island [Jamaica] is becoming gener- ally ; In an un- pubhshed report of Novem- ber, 1917, in the bureau files, Harold Morrison gives an ac- count of the black fly in Jamaica and Cuba, and for the first time called attention to the fact that tliis insect was established in the Canal Zone and the adjoining parts of the Republic of Panama, having been found by him on citrus and mango trees in Cristobal, Ancon, and Balboa in the former place and in Colon and Panama in the lat- ter, in August of that year. In the early part of 1918 Dr. W. M. Mann, of the Bureau of Entomology, foimd the pest in the vicinity of Santi- ago de Cuba, thereby estab- lishing a new Cuban distribu- tion record. In his explora- tions of the British West. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Department : Supt. of Docs. , Govt. Print. Off.


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