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I have seen references to several articles on economic insects pub- 

 lished since 1926 by Ernesto Molestino O., of the Department of 

 Agriculture, including one on a cane weevil (Eumycterusf sacchari- 

 dis) . These bulletins have been mimeographed, but so far as I know 

 have not been otherwise published. 



The (translated) Agricultural Association of Ecuador is an or- 

 ganization that has been in existence for quite a number of years. 

 In 19 1 8 this association issued a report on the diseases and pests 

 of cacao by J. B. Rorer. The author considered ants, the cacao- 

 beetle and a Capsid bug {MonaJonion atratum). In 1920 and 1921 

 Mr. H. K. Plank, an American entomologist, was employed by 

 planters' associations in Ecuador to make a study of cacao insects, 

 and in a bulletin of the Agricultural Association in 1921 he published 

 a practical article on the control of Attn sp. in the cacao plantations. 



Professor Campos has been good enough to write me about the 

 insect crop pests of Ecuador, and they seem to be rather numerous. 

 All crops suffer occasionally from migratory locusts ; and the coconut 

 plantations, as well as the sugar cane, beans, coffee, peas, turnips, 

 potatoes, cotton, Citrus trees, tomatoes, and others are rather seriously 

 injured from time to time by different insects. The Government of 

 Ecuador maintains, for agricultural investigation, two small experi- 

 ment stations — one near the coast on the Island of Silva facing 

 Guayaquil, and the other in the interior at a high elevation at Quinta 

 Normal in the State of Ambato. In the field of agricultural ento- 

 mology, however, no serious or important work has been done. 



CHILE 



As has been the case with most other countries of South America, 

 the insect fauna of Chile was studied with more or less care many 

 years before native entomologists began to write. Claudio Gay, an 

 ambitious and indefatigable French entomologist (1800- 1877), began 

 to study Cliilean insects as early as 1836, and after publishing some 

 articles on the Coleoptera of Chile in the publications of the Ento- 

 mological Society of France, he planned a great work entitled " His- 

 toria Fisica y Politica de Chile." Volumes 4 to 7 of this great work 

 included an account of the insects. His collections in the different 

 orders were sent to well known European specialists, and he had the 

 assistance of the following competent entomologists : H. Nicolet, 

 P. Gervais, A. Solier, fimile Blanchard, and M. Spinola. The last 

 volume was published in 1852, and the whole work was printed in 

 Paris. The publication of this work was naturally the basis for future 

 work on Chilean insects and an incentive to such work. In 1865, 



