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The results of Dr. W. E. Hinds' stay in Peru will be found in his 

 report on the important cotton insects of Peru, published in the 

 Journal of Economic Entomology for August, 1928. 



There are three other titles that should be mentioned, namely, a 

 report by Doctor Townsend on the insects attacking cotton and sugar 

 cane in Peru, published in 1928 in the Bulletin of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station of the National Agricultural Society of Peru ; 

 another article on the principal cotton insects in Piura, by J. B. Poppe, 

 published in 1929 ; and Mr. G. N. Wolcott's paper on insects affecting 

 the sugar industry of Peru, published in 1928. 



Commercial organizations in Peru seem keenly alive to questions 

 of insect damage and the necessity for expert investigations and 

 advice. The latest evidence of this fact that has come to my attention 

 is the very recent appointment of E. Graywood Smyth, a competent 

 North American entomologist formerly connected with the United 

 States Bureau of Entomology, to be entomologist on the great sugar 

 estates of W. R. Grace & Co. in Peru. 



Mr. F. P. Keen, of the Section of Forest Insects of the United 

 States Bureau of Entomology has recently made a hurried trip 

 through South America. Concerning Peru, he writes me the following : 



At the present time Peru is one of the most progressive countries in South 

 America in respect to investigative work in economic entomology. This work 

 is being led and directed by the Sociedad Nacional Agraria at Lima. 



The Society was organized in 1911 to assist the farmers with their agricultural 

 problems, k is a private institution financed largely by the farmers but endowed 

 to some extent by the Government. As a result the farmers demand more 

 service than the Society is able to give with its limited personnel. 



The entomological work was started in 1926 under the Estacion Experimental 

 Agricola which is a branch of the Society. At the present time Sr. Gerardo 

 Klinge is Superintendente de la Estacion, Dr. Johannes Wille, Entomologo de 

 la Estacion and Dr. James Pope, Entomologist for Cotton Insects. Dr. E. V. 

 Abbott is Pathologist. Thus the Station now has three scientists on its staflf 

 besides the director, one German and two Americans. 



Sugar cane used to be the principal crop but now cotton has replaced it in 

 value, and as a consequence the emphasis is now being placed on the cotton 

 insects. 



THE GUIANAS 



Dutch Guiana. — North European travelers early made large col- 

 lections in this colony. Madame Sibilla Merrian made her great 

 collections of Lepidoptera there, and her beautiful drawings which 

 are still the admiration of lepidopterists. The principal contribution 

 of the Dutch people to economic entomology from Guiana is the large 

 monograph of the mosquitoes of vSurinam made by Dr. C. Bonne 

 and his wife, Mrs. C. Bonne-Wepster. Conceived and largely exe- 



