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The Results of Shipments of the Predatory Elaterid Beetle Pyrophorus luminosus from Puerto Rico to England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

K. A. Bartlett
K. A. Bartlett
Affiliation:
Associate Entomologist, Puerto Rico Experiment Station.*
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At the request of Dr. W. R. Thompson, Superintendent, Farnham House Laboratory, The Imperial Institute of Entomology, England, arrangements were made in 1936 to collect and furnish to him larvae of the predacious Elaterid Pyrophorus luminosus, Illiger, indigenous to Puerto Rico. These beetles were for liberation in Mauritius to aid in the control of the white grub, Phytalus smithi, Arrow. Shipments were sent by steamer from Puerto Rico to New York and then to England for repacking and shipment to Mauritius. The Mauritius government appropriated the sum of 85 pounds sterling to defray the expense of collection, packing and shipment.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , July 1939 , pp. 209 - 210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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