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Fiji Rhino Front
“MOST alarming” was the official If X comment following the dis covery of 5 male adult rhino ceros beetles, 14 pupae, and 18 grubs under the rotted floor matting of a Fijian bure in the Tailevu Dis trict of Viti Levu, during October.
The Tailevu coast is the sailing point for numbers of small craft heading for other copra islands in Fiji, and it is an area where there is little or no quarantine exam ination of boats.
Mr. C. A. Stokes, organiser of the Fiji anti-beetle campaign, noting these facts, says that it is not dif ficult to imagine baskets of yams, etc., standing in this and similar bures overnight, then being taken aboard some small craft next morn ing as probable bearers of beetles.
The latest find suggests that it will be surprising if beetle colonies have not already been established on other islands.