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ble collections of insects and personally conducted them to Toulouse 

 in the effort to save them from the ])ressing danger. Of course, this 

 was not distinctly economic entomology, but it will readily be real- 

 ized that the economic entomologists depend enormously upon the 

 great collections that have been studied by the authorities on the dif- 

 ferent groups. 



Another story comes from Paul Marchal, via C. P. Clausen who 

 was in Paris during the spring and summer following the war. It 

 seems that during the airplane and artillery bombardments of Paris 

 in the last years of the war Marchal was rearing Cryptolaemus mon- 

 troiisieri, a ladybird enemy of mealybugs, on a rather large scale. 

 Whenever one of the bombardments was announced, or whenever 

 the approach of enemy i)lanes or Zeppelins was reported, the colo- 

 nies of living Coccinellids were carried to the basements underneath 

 the buildings of the city and kept there in safety during the course of 

 the bombardment. This is probably the only case in history where 

 living insects were protected from destruction during a great war by 

 human beings. 



There have been in France, notably in the different universities, 

 several men who have made important contributions to economic 

 entomology, in addition to the men occupied at the regional labora- 

 tories under the central Ministry of Agriculture. F. Henneguey, for 

 example, did some extraordinary work of a fundamental character 

 with insects. Prof. A. Lecaillon at the University of Toulouse has 

 made many careful studies of several of the important insects of the 

 South of France. 



The French colonies have had many good workers who have pub- 

 lished articles of value. In Algeria the work of L. Trabut and 

 M. Delassus must be referred to. An excellent report on the insects 

 damaging cork oak in the forest of Mamora, Morocco, by J. de 

 Lepiney, was published in Paris in 1927. In medical entomology, the 

 Pasteur Institute of Algiers has long been a stronghold of advanced 

 and practical research, largely conducted by the brothers Sergent. 

 Out in the French settlements in Oceania. A. Brugiroux reported on 

 some insects damaging crops. The French Government of Indo-China 

 has apparently had the advice of good resident entomologists. 

 L. Duport, before the World War, made a number of reports on the 

 enemies of cultivated plants in the Far East. An especially full 

 report was published in the Bulletin economique de ITndochine for 

 November-December, 191 2, and in the following numbers. This 

 report covers 147 pages and considers a large number of injurious 

 insects attacking different crops. After the war, Mr. Duport again 



