WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 4O3 



had a good working knowledge of most of the other orders, but he 

 was primarily a coleopterist. He intended to prepare a general work 

 on New Zealand Coleoptera, and he was very industrious in describ- 

 ing his species. He became known to entomologists all over the world. 



Mr. W. M. Maskell was born in England in 1840, and died in New 

 Zealand in 1898 after a surgical operation. He was educated in Eng- 

 land and in Paris, served in the Army for a short time, and went to 

 New Zealand iii i860, where he was for some years a sheep farmer. 

 In 1887 he became Provincial Secretary and Treasurer of Canterbury 

 Province. Toward the end of his life he was Registrar of the Univer- 

 sity of New Zealand. I should mention that he began originally as a 

 microscopist and gradually became interested in the Coccidae, Aleu- 

 rodidae, and Psyllidae, although he also worked on the Desmids in 

 botany. He planned to do a large work, in parts, on the insects nox- 

 ious to agriculture and plants in New Zealand. Of this, he published 

 one part, the scale insects, which was issued in book form in 1887 

 by the Department of State Forests and Agriculture at Wellington. 

 He had previously been describing species in the Transactions of the 

 New Zealand Institute and was well known as a careful student who 

 had the delightful task of being the first to investigate a new fauna. 

 His book is not large, covering only 116 pages, but it is illustrated 

 by 22 carefully drawn plates. He was the first to describe several 

 species that have since become widely distributed and of very con- 

 siderable economic importance. The famous cottony cushion scale, 

 or fluted scale {Icerya purchasi), was first described by him, in the 

 Transactions of the New Zealand Institute for 1878. 



Dr. David Miller, now Chief Entomologist and Director of the 

 Forest Biological and Noxious Weeds Control Researches at the 

 Cawthron Institute, was born in Scotland in 1890. He was appointed 

 Government Entomologist in New Zealand in 19 16, holding this 

 post until 1928, when he succeeded Tillyard at the Cawthron Insti- 

 tute. For some years prior to 1928 he also acted as Lecturer on For- 

 est and Agricultural Zoology in the New Zealand University and as 

 Consulting Zoologist to the State Forest Service. Since his estab- 

 lishment at the Cawthron Institute the Entomological Department of 

 that Institute has become recognized as the central entomological 

 research station for the Dominion. Doctor Miller has taken hold of 

 this work with great enthusiasm. 



In the spring of 1930 he spent some time in the United States, on 

 his way to the meeting of the Imperial Bureau in London. In fact, he 

 is in Washington at this time of writing (April, 1930). He expects 

 to visit South America on his way back to New Zealand and to at- 



