Vol. Xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2/7 



COLLECTING IN SOUTH AMERICA. L. A. Williamson, E. B. William- 

 son and B. J. Rainey, of Bluffton, Indiana, left New York City by 

 steamer on January isth for British Guiana, and returned to New 

 York March ipth. On their trip south their first stop was at Bar- 

 badoes, where they made only a brief stay, and from there they went 

 to Georgetown, British Guiana, and with very slight delay struck 

 into the interior, ascending the Demarara River sixty miles to Wis- 

 mar, where they spent a few days in the collection of dragon flies, the 

 main purpose of the expedition, which was organized by E. B. Wil- 

 liamson. From Wismar they crossed the country to Rockstone, on 

 the Essequibo River, and collected flies for several days along that 

 stream. Their next objective point was Tumatumari, on the Potaro 

 River, about 150 miles from the coast, and in their collecting expedi- 

 tions in that vicinity they ascended the river still twenty miles farther. 

 From there they returned over about the same route to Georgetown. 



From Georgetown the three gentlemen went to Paramaribo, the 

 capital of Dutch Guiana, and also visited New Amsterdam in that 

 country, adding to their collections at both points. This completed 

 their collecting tour in South America and they then took a steamer 

 to the Island of Trinidad, where they spent two weeks in collecting 

 before they took up the return journey to New York. 



They secured a total of about 4,100 dragon-flies, of 135 species, and 

 in addition about 500 insects of other orders. 



The dragon-flies secured in South America by Mr. Williamson will 

 be added to a collection of about 23,000 he had made previously, which 

 includes about 1000 species secured on former expeditions to many 

 points in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. 

 Btuffton Evening News, March 21, 1912. 



NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS CONCERNING INSECTS. [I enclose copies 

 of Orders Nos. 6158 and 6242 of the Postmaster General, and call your 

 attention especially to paragraphs 7 and 8. No. 8, you will notice, is a 

 new section, No. 7 being modified from the old one. L. O. HOWARD.] 



OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, 

 WASHINGTON, March 23 and May 3, 1912. 

 ORDERS Nos. 6158 and 6242. 



Section 496, Postal Laws and Regulations, is amended by amending 

 paragraph 7 and adding new paragraph 8, as hereinafter stated, and 

 by renumbering old paragraphs 8, 9, 10, n and 12 as paragraphs 9, 10, 



u, 12 and 13. 



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7. Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied by a 

 copy of a certificate of the current year from a State or Government 

 apiary inspector to the effect that the apiary from which said queen 

 bees are shipped is free from disease or by a copy of a statement by the 



