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who succeeded Burmeister in the National Museum, published 

 several economic papers between 1874 and 1895, the most important 

 ones relating to the Phylloxera. 



One of the most prolific writers on Argentine insects was the late 

 J. Brethes who died recently. His papers were in the main taxonomic 

 but he wrote several that were concerned with injurious insects and 

 were published between 1899 and the time of his death in 1928. The 

 author of the bibliographical list, C. A. Lizer y Trelles, lists several 

 titles of papers of his own. And the well known naturalist, L. Iches, 

 also published a few articles of economic bearing, notably one on the 

 plague of Stomoxys calcitrans which did great damage to cattle fol- 

 lowing the neglect for a time of an ordinance requiring the destruction 

 of old straw stacks. 



Then also, Jose M. Huergo, between 1905 and 1923, published a 

 number of short articles relating to injurious insects, especially scale 

 insects. Before that, E. Lynch Arribalzaga published several papers 

 of economic purpose, the first on locusts in 1891. 



A younger man, Carlos S. Reed, a son, by the way, of Edwyn C. 

 Reed of Chile (the latter an Englishman who lived for many years 

 in Chile and died there) has written many shorter articles relating 

 to Argentine insects, from 1910 on. 



During the present century occasional entomological articles of 

 value have been published in the Gaceta Rural of Buenos Aires. I 

 have especially noticed one on the Peach Fly {Chyliza persicariim) 

 by Jose C. Castellano, which seems to be thorough and excellent. 



Carlos Lizer has written a number of sound articles in compara- 

 tively recent years, published for the most part in Agronomia. Lie has 

 especially interested himself in scale insects. 



The Bulletin of the Ministry of Agriculture for 1916 contains 

 entomological articles by E. Molina and P. T. Canela, and in this 

 Bulletin the interesting statement is made that during the month of 

 October, 1916, 1,425,864 pounds of locusts were destroyed; 9,275 

 ants' nests ; and 34.025 pounds of bagworms. 



Another writer has been Dr. P. C. Massini, who has contributed to 

 the Annals of the Rural Society of Argentina. This Rural Society, by 

 the way, has had an Entomological Section, and Doctor Massini has 

 written in the Annals on the general subject of biological control of 

 injurious insects. 



A late publication of the Ministry of Agriculture was written by 

 E. E. Blanchard, on the subject of insects aft'ecting mate. It was 

 published as Circular 735 of the Ministry of Agriculture in 1928. It 

 covers 42 pages and contains three figures and four plates. 



