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can reclame. Scnhor LeCocq, however, thout^ht differently, and in 

 October, 1927, the writer was able to secure, through the State De- 

 partment of Horticulture of California, 60 adult Novius and some 

 larvae. Only five of these reached Portugal alive, but Senhor LeCocq 

 was able to rear many others from them. A second sending was 

 started on the 22nd of November, and six adults arrived safely. 

 From these were reared under Senhor LeCocq's supervision and with 

 great care so many of the little beetles that they were soon distributed 

 to orange growers with the result that the scale insects were com- 

 pletely subdued. An account of this rather extraordinary incident, 

 with a translation of Senhor LeCocq's story of the Portuguese end, 

 will be found in Bulletin 18, new series, of the United States Bureau 

 of Entomology, pages 30-35 (November, 1898). 



I had the pleasure of visiting Lisbon in 1910. Senhor LeCocq, 

 then Director of Agriculture, introduced me to Prof. A. F. de Seabra 

 of the Phytopathological Station at Lisbon. Senhor de Seabra inter- 

 ested himself greatly in the object of my mission (the European para- 

 sites and natural enemies of the gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth) 

 and we had a long talk on entomological matters of mutual interest. 

 I am greatly indebted to him for most of the facts upon which this 

 account of activities in Portugal is based. In 1923 I had the pleasure 

 of meeting him again, at Madrid, at an international olive-fly con- 

 ference held under the auspices of the Liternational Institute of 

 Agriculture at Rome. He was one of the representatives of Portugal 

 at this important conference. 



In 1910 the growing work of the Laboratory began to decline. 

 Reorganizations of all the public services were made at that time, 

 since the present Republic of Portugal was formed that year, and the 

 progress of technical work was somewhat hampered. However, the 

 Laboratory of Vegetable Pathology having been installed at the Ag- 

 ricultural Institute of Lisbon, it continued its investigations under the 

 direction of Prof. Verissimo d'Almeida. 



I have seen an interesting and important article entitled (trans- 

 lated) " The Principal Lepidoptera Injurious to Agriculture in the 

 Neighborhood of S. Fiel," published in Broteria, Salamanca, 1013 

 (Ser. Zool. vol. 9, pp. 40-44). 



In 191 6 Senhor de Seabra was charged with the organization of 

 a Laboratory of Forest Biology. There was an old laboratory, be- 

 longing to the Forest Service, in which the Agricultural Engineer, 

 Camara Pestana, had made some very interesting studies on the dis- 

 ease of the chestnut, and certain forest engineers, such as Mendes, 

 d'Almeida and others, had also done some work on forestry biology. 



