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(translated) "Contribution to the Study of the CuHcidae ; Observa- 

 tions on the Respiration of the Larvae." The very destructive out- 

 break of the coffee borer {Stephanoderes coffcae) in the early 1920's 

 started him to work on this, and a number of his later papers have 

 been written on this subject. For example, an important article by 

 B. de Toledo Rodovalho was published in 1925, and other articles by 

 other writers have been appearing from time to time. 



The coffee-borer damage resulted in the establishment of a Govern- 

 ment commission of investigation with, I believe. Dr. Arturo Neiva 

 as chief, and a number of the best men in Brazil have been engaged 

 in the investigation. Professor da Costa Lima's last letter to me was 

 written from the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz rather than from the Su- 

 perior School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine which had 

 been his earlier address. 



Another of the younger men who are doing admirable work in 

 Brazil is Gregorio Bondar. It appears that in 191 3 he was connected 

 with the agricultural school " Luiz de Queiroz " at Piracicaba in the 

 State of vSao Paulo. In that year he published two parts of a series 

 entitled (translated) " The Insects Injurious to Agriculture." The 

 first part considered the insect enemies of the cultivated fig. It is a 

 pamphlet of 17 pages, with 13 figures. The second part considered the 

 enemies of Myrtaceous fruits. This is a larger pamphlet, covering 

 39 pages, and is illustrated with 31 figures. Parts III and IV are 

 indicated on the cover leaf of Part II, but I have not seen them. They 

 include the enemies of the orange and other Citrus fruits, in Part ITT : 

 and, in Part IV, some enemies of fruit culture and arboriculture. 



Sometime between 1913 and 1922, Bondar was made Entomologist 

 to the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Bahia, and in the lattei 

 year he published, under this Ministry, a pamphlet of iii pages on 

 the enemies of the coco-palm. As usual, this pamphlet was well 

 illustrated, with y^i plates and text figures. 



In 1923 he published, under the same Ministry, an important paper 

 of 182 pages with 84 figures, entitled " The Aleyrodidae of Brazil." 

 Although in a subtitle he called it a descriptive catalogue, it is rather 

 more than that and is very full and very carefully done and contains 

 a general statement regarding the morphology of the group. 



In the same year he published, in the Revista do Museo Paulista, 

 a short account of some Brazilian Buprestidae. 



In 1925 was published Part II of what is evidently a series of 

 papers on cacao, this part including the diseases and enemies of cacao 

 plantations. This is a pamphlet of 125 pages, and is illustrated by 

 74 original figures. 



