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In 1908 Mr. Van Dine was brought to the United States, and D. T. 

 Fullaway^ was appointed Entomologist to the Experiment Station. 

 He held this post until June 30, 191 5, when he resigned to take a 

 post connected with the Territorial Board of Agriculture. While 

 with the Station, he published a number of papers, including one on 

 the insects injurious to tobacco and another on insects affecting cotton. 

 The cotton industry started with good prospects in Hawaii, but the 

 accidental introduction of the pink boUworm wiped it out. Since 1915 

 Mr. Fullaway has remained with the Territorial Board of Agriculture 

 and has done admirable work. His place with the United States 

 Experiment Station was not filled, since it was thought that, with the 

 officials of the Territorial Board of Agriculture, the resident ento- 

 mologists from the Federal Bureau of Agriculture, and those of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, there were quite enough ento- 

 mologists employed officially in the islands to handle all of the insect 

 problems. 



An account of Hawaiian economic entomology would not be com- 

 plete without mention of the investigations made by Mr. August 

 Busck, of the United States Bureau of Entomology, who went to 

 Hawaii in 191 5 to study the pink bollworm of cotton. This extremely 

 injurious insect had been discovered in Mexico, and the United States 

 was threatened. It had also been accidentally imported into Hawaii 

 and had virtually put a stop to experiments in cotton culture which 

 were assuming considerable importance. Mr. Busck remained in the 

 islands six months (May to October) and on his return to the United 

 States published, in the Journal of Agricultural Research of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture (Vol. 9, No. 10, June 4, 

 1917) the most complete study of this insect that has been made. The 

 article considers the insect from all points of view, is illustrated with 

 a number of careful figures, and has no less than 12 plates. Mr. 

 Busck's great knowledge as a student of the Microlepidoptera assures 

 the accuracy and importance of this very careful article, which, by 

 the way, is accompanied by a full bibliography. 



FIJI 



The Fiji Islands have been utilized by the British very successfully 

 in an agricultural way for many years. The great Colonial Sugar 

 Refining Company has founded there very considerable interests, 

 which, however, extend out into Australia and New Zealand. 



In 1913 Mr. F. P. Jepson, who was then Government Entomologist 

 of Fiji, made his importation of 5,000 Histerid beetles (Plaesius 

 javanus) to destroy the banana weevil. He is said also to have brought 



