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printed mainly in the Queensland Agricultural Journal and in the 

 Empire Cotton Growing Review. 



When C. B. Williams left Egypt in 1928, Mr. Ballard went to 

 that country, where he now holds the position of Chief of the Plant 

 Protection Section of the Ministry of Agriculture. While in Aus- 

 tralia, Mr. Ballard was allotted land on farms in each of the chief 

 cotton-growing parts of Queensland, which he used for experimental 

 or observation work and for testing possible methods of control of 

 pests. He found serious problems, and at the time of his arrival the 

 coastal areas, for example, were heavily infested with the pink boll- 

 worm. The bolls were infested by the cosmopolitan Noctuid moth, 

 Heliothis armiger (or Chloridea obsoleta) and also by the Australian 

 peach moth {Dichocrods punctifcralis). There were also cotton- 

 stainers of the genus Dysdercus just as there are in the Americas, 

 and other true bugs doing similar work. 



Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris, an Englishman who had held for a brief 

 time an entomological position in the West Indies, went to Australia 

 in 1902 and was engaged for seven and a half years in the Queensland 

 Museum as Director. His health failing, he went into the country 

 for a time and engaged in the study of the diseases and insect pests 

 of fruit trees in the field. In 1922 he took the position of officer in 

 charge of the central office laboratory — Malarial and Filarial Sur- 

 vey of Southern Queensland under grants from the Rockefeller 

 Foundation. He is now and has been since 1926 City Entomologist of 

 Brisbane under the Department of Health. He has made some most 

 interesting observations relating to mosquitoes and disease and has 

 published a number of important papers. 



We must not leave Queensland without mention of the excellent 

 work done by Margaret E. Tcmperley, who seems to be an excellent 

 ol:)servcr and altogether a most competent person. For example, in 

 the April, 1930, numl)er of the Queensland Agricultural Journal 

 there is an admirable and beautifully illustrated article by ]\Iiss Tem- 

 perley entitled "Life History Notes on the Banana Fruit-Eating 

 Caterpillar (Tiracola plagiata Walk.)." She gives a very full account 

 of the life history of this destructive insect. The two colored plates 

 covering this article were drawn by Mr. Helmsing whose name is 

 mentioned in a previous paragraph. They could not have been done 

 more skillfully. 



South Australia. — The first work on injurious insects in South 

 Australia was apparently done by Mr. Frazer S. Crawford who inter- 

 ested himself for a number of years before his death in the study of 

 msects and fungus pests. It was due to Mr. Crawford that the famous 



