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After the organization of the Laboratory by De Seabra its investiga- 

 tions were especially occupied with entomological subjects. Interest- 

 ing studies have been made upon the oak Tortrix and upon the gipsy 

 moth and brown-tail moth ; also upon the European elm leaf beetle 

 and several other insects injurious to trees ; and at the same time 

 studies have been carried on concerning the general fauna of the 

 forests. A special Entomological Section has been started at Coimbra. 



At the present time the Laljoratory of Vegetable Pathology still 

 has approximately the old organization, but has a more numerous 

 technical personnel and is well installed in the new building of the 

 Superior Institute of Agronomy at Lisbon under the direction of 

 Prof. Sousa da Camara. This Laboratory was represented at the 

 international olive-Hy conference at Madrid in 1923, and has made 

 investigations on this injurious insect. 



Aside from these activities of the general government, I am in- 

 formed that there has just been organized in the Museum of the 

 University of Coimbra a special Section of Biology and Parasitology 

 publishing archives and also occupying itself with the study of para- 

 sites of plants. Moreover the Museum of the University of Porto 

 has established an insectorium at Foz do Douro in which the species 

 injurious to agriculture will be studied. 



Under the titles (translated) " Publications of the Laboratory of 

 Vegetable Pathology " and (translated) " Works of the Laboratory 

 of Plant Biology," a number of studies, instructions, etc., have been 

 published since the organization of these institutions. And apropos to 

 the different plagues of agriculture, the Government has issued laws 

 and special instructions. Quite recently an edict has been promul- 

 gated regulating the services destined for the fight against the Argen- 

 tine ant. 



More or less entomological work of one kind or another has been 

 done in the Portuguese colonies. About the time of the revolution. 

 Mr. G. H. Gable, of the United States Federal Bureau, for example, 

 was sent to the Azores. Later, C. W. Howard was sent from the 

 United States to Portuguese East Africa. During 1928 and 1929 

 M. P. Lesne, a very well known entomologist of the Paris Museum of 

 Natural History was resident in Mozambique studying insect pests, 

 especially those of cotton. 



In 1916 a colonial agricultural company entitled (translated) " The 

 Overseas Agricultural Company " established a Laboratory of Ento- 

 mology and Phytopathology at Lisbon. This laboratory was well 

 organized, and sent a trained Agricultural Engineer to San Thome 

 to make studies of the cacao and other cultures of that island and to 



