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the highest praise of the results of the work of Celli and his 

 associates. He also described briefly visits to Spain and 

 Portugal, mentioning especially his conferences with Professor 

 Ignacio Bolivar and Professor L,. Navarro at Madrid, and also 

 with Seiior Alfredo L,e Coq, Director of Agriculture of Por- 

 tugal, and Professor A. de Seabra, in charge of the entomo- 

 logical work for the Ministry of Agriculture of Portugal. 



He then mentioned briefly a visit to the great nursery- 

 growing regions of France, especially those around Angers, 

 Orleans, Versailles, and Ussy, and called attention to the curi- 

 ous fact that, although in the summer of 1909 both Porthe- 

 tria dispar and Ruproctis chrysorrhcea had been very abund- 

 ant in these regions, in the corresponding week in 1910 hardly 

 a lepidopterous larva of any kind was to be found, and the 

 two species just mentioned were conspicuously absent. From 

 these observations he concluded that nursery stock imported 

 during the coming winter from Europe will be found to be 

 practically uninfested. He also mentioned visits to Belgium 

 and Holland, illustrating nursery conditions by photographs. 



In September, in company with Dr. L. P. De Bussy, Biol- 

 ogist of the Tobacco Planters' Association of Deli, Sumatra, 

 he proceeded from Washington to Sacramento, California. 

 There they met Messrs. Games, Compere, and Bremuer. 

 The recent importations of Mr. George Compere from oriental 

 regions were examined, and special mention was made of a 

 new coccinellid of minute size which preys upon Dactylopius 

 and which, in the opinion of Mr. Compere, will prove more 

 valuable than Cryptolamus montrousieri. Photographs were 

 shown illustrating the collection of Hippodamia convcrgens 

 in enormous numbers by the agents of the State Horticultural 

 Commission. These specimens are packed in boxes each con- 

 taining 60,000 individuals, the number being determined by 

 weight. A photograph was shown of a series of boxes con- 

 taining 5,860,000 of these coccinellids packed ready for ship- 

 ment to truck growers and orchard growers in different parts 

 of California. The comparative ease with which this species 

 of coccidellid is collected was indicated by a photograph taken 

 by the speaker in the Muir valley at the base of Mount 

 Tamalpais. There the Hippodamia was found on the after- 

 noon of September 18. clustering in enormous numbers about 

 the nodes of a large species of Rqnisctnm and in the slightly 

 rolled leaves of a wild species of Riibus. Some thousands of 

 specimens could readily have been collected from every speci- 

 men of either of these plants. 



The party visited Mr. Moulton, the Deputy Horticultural 



