WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 427 



was published in 1925 and relates to the plant-lice of Brazil, also by 

 Professor Moreira. Bulletin 3, published the same year, relates to 

 the coffee borer ; No. 4, to the leaf -hopper enemy of sugar cane — 

 both of these by Professor Moreira. No. 5 relates to phytopatho- 

 logical work. 



Adolph Hempel, born in the United States and educated at Rawlins 

 College, Florida, and at the University of Illinois, went to Brazil in 

 the closing years of the last century and became an assistant to H. von 

 Ihring at the Museu Paulista. He began at once to study scale 

 insects, and published a number of important papers on this group in 

 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History of England for the 

 year 1901. The previous year (1900) he had published a lengthy 

 paper on the Coccids of Brazil in the Revista do Museu Paulista. In 

 1910 he published at Sao Paulo a catalogue of the Coccidae of Brazil 

 which includes descriptions of new species. Later he was appointed 

 to the Agronomial Institute at Campinas and held a position equiva- 

 lent to that of a State Entomologist at an experiment station in this 

 country. He taught in entomology and vegetable pathology, and re- 

 mained there until 1902 or 1903. On giving up his work at Campinas, 

 he went back to^ Sao Paulo and was appointed State Entomologist of 

 that State ; and in this capacity he investigated various crop insects, 

 including the enemies of coffee. One of the important tasks that he 

 undertook was a revision of the family Aleyrodidae. I am informed 

 by his brother-in-law, Mr. F. L. Lewton, of the United States 

 National Museum, that on January 20, 1929, he sailed for Uganda to 

 search for parasites of the coffee borer, and expected to be gone 

 three or four months. 



In the (translated) Archives of the Superior School of Agriculture 

 and Veterinary IMedicine, Rio de Janeiro, Volume 8 (1927), there is 

 a tentative bibliography of Brazilian entomology which covers about 

 600 titles of papers written mainly by Brazilians but including a few 

 by foreigners relating to Brazilian insects that had been sent to them, 

 as for example, the Italian Bezzi on Diptera, and the American 

 Cockerell on Coccidae. This bibliography is prefaced by a list of the 

 injurious insects of Brazil, which runs to 864 numbers. This list and 

 bibliography were prepared by Dr. A. da Costa Lima, a younger man 

 who has been doing admirable work for the past 15 years. While 

 perhaps most of his papers have referred to medical entomology, he 

 has written a number on agricultural entomology. He has studied 

 fruit-flies and Curculionid beetles as well as the parasites of a number 

 of injurious species. In fact his main work seems to have been of 

 an economic character. The first paper of his listed (1914) is entitled 



