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Yucatan, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc., while at no 

 locality did the agent of the Department remain long enough to obtain 

 more than a very superficial knowledge of the insects there existing. 



(12) That we therefore recommend the appointment of a permanent 

 agent who must be a skilled Entomologist, well informed about scale 

 insects, to travel in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies, and 

 make collections of injurious insects and such observation as are above 

 indicated. 



(13) That such agent should be appointed and paid by the Department 

 of Agriculture, and b 4 e regarded as an official of the Division of Ento- 

 mology, to which he should report and transmit all his collections, the 

 latter to be finally deposited in the United States National Museum. 



(14) That while thus in the service of the Department of Agriculture 

 he should be instructed to cooperate with the several Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Stations, and advise the quarantine officers concerning their 

 work, in the light of the experience gained by his researches. 



Notes and News. 



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DURING July of 1895, I took on flowers of Swamp Milkweed, Asc/epias 

 caniosa, and Pasture Thistle, two fine Hemaris thysbf, van nnifonnis, in 

 two localities of Westchester County, N. Y. I also received from a col- 

 lector in Manitoba, three specimens of the same variation, which seems 

 to be the prevailing form in that northern region. Dr. R. E. KUNZE. ' 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS received. I am very much pleased with the 

 volume for 1895. I have taken several entomolcgical journals, but never 

 saw one so handsome in its make up or more useful to students in the 

 field. The NEWS aims high and invites its readers, who are in the amateur 

 field, to come up higher. I find it constantly helpful, and if there is any- 

 thing in my line I do not understand I take pleasure in studying it out. 

 A. \V. P. 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO EVERGREENS. Tne spruces in some parts of 

 the United States are attacked by a gall-forming insect belonging to the 



