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and to settle down in a dry climate. And so he went to Chile, where 

 he spent. the rest of his useful life. 



Other names connected prominently with entomological research in 

 Chile have been those of Prof. F. Lataste, Dr. F. Puga Borne, Prof. 

 M. J. Rivera, Dr. Vicente Izquierdo, Hno. Claude Joseph, F. Germain, 

 Prof. Abraham Montealegre, and, very notably, Prof. Carlos E. 

 Porter. 



Professor Lataste published many papers, relating largely to tax- 

 onomy ; Doctor Puga Borne wrote extensively on the poisonous 

 spiders of the genus Latrodectus ; Hno. Claude Joseph has written 

 extensively on the honey-bearing and predacious Hymenoptera of 

 Chile and on the morphology and biology of Peripatus. His work in 

 1929 was honored by the Alcide d'Orbigny Prize of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of France. 



Professor Montealegre was one of the few workers who, without 

 failing to recognize the importance of taxonomy, occupied himself 

 during the last years of his life with the study of the behavior of 

 insects, and published many interesting articles in the daily press of 

 Valdivia and in the Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. He was a 

 teacher for more than 30 years ; was a member of the Entomological 

 Society of France and of the Academy of Sciences of Chile and the 

 Society of Natural History of Chile. 



Filiberto Germain (1827-1913) was born in Lyons, and from 1853 

 he was the Director of the Museum at Santiago. He was an orni- 

 thologist and an entomologist, and worked especially with the Cole- 

 optera. He did a revised catalogue of the Coleoptera of Chile, and 

 published on the Coleoptera of Chile in collaboration with Fairmaire, 

 the noted French entomologist. 



Two other Chileans who have done work with insects have been 

 Dr. Federico Teobaldo Delfin and Dr. Clodomiro Perez Canto. 

 Doctor Delfin worked most of his life in the museum at Valparaiso. 

 He was a broad naturalist and his entomological interests were con- 

 cerned mainly with Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. Doctor Canto, 

 while primarily a bacteriologist, published in 1896 an important article 

 on the embryology of Margarodes vitiuin. 



Among the papers published by the men just mentioned, very few 

 have any reference to economic entomology, but in 1897 Prof. Gaston 

 Lavergne, Inspector in charge of the Phytopathological Service in 

 France, came to Chile and founded a phytopathological station. He 

 remained in Chile until 1906, when he returned to France. He pub- 

 lished 17 papers largely relating to the vine, but included among them 

 were one on the woolly apple aphis published in 1900, another dealing 



