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youngster by Mr. Quelch and was trained by him, and that when 

 Quelch some time in 191 1 left British Guiana Mr. Moore took over 

 the work. Mr. Moore corresponded with specialists in Washington 

 and elsewhere on the subject of the identification of his material ; 

 and the work started by Mr. Quelch and continued by him consisted 

 largely of the collection of the moths and caterpillars of DIatraea 

 and Castnia and also' of their eggs. Since many of the eggs were 

 parasitized, arrangements were made by Mr. Moore to collect them 

 and keep them in such a way that the parasites could emerge while 

 possibly surviving host larvae could not. Mr. Moore published from 

 1914 to 1917, but I have seen none of his reports later than that. 

 It is interesting to note that the sugar planters of Trinidad have made 

 several attempts to import parasites of sugar cane insects from 

 Guiana, and that Mr. Harold E. Box, working for the Porto Rico 

 Sugar Planters' Association, made his first attempts to secure para- 

 sites of the sugar cane froghopper from the Guianas. 



UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA 



The United States of Colombia is a country that has been the 

 prolific himting ground of many collectors in natural history, ln:t 

 seems to have developed few native entomologists. The country has 

 suffered from the cacao-beetle, and the Federal Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy in Washington has received letters from many individuals in 

 reference to this and other insect damage. 



In the Revista del Ministerio de Industrias, I'ogota, for May, 

 1916, is a report by A. Girardi on plant aphids, evidently written by 

 a scientific man, and mentioning natural enemies and proper sprays. 

 In the June number is an article on the potato tuber moth, and 

 another one' on the fungicides and insecticides most commonly used 

 to combat the diseases of plants. 



In 1919, in the Agricultural Review, Bogota, was published an 

 article by J. Figueroa on the cultivation of clover, in \vhich the insect 

 enemies are considered. In the same journal for that year is an 

 article on the locust, by A. Lopez. 



In 1927 the Industrial Review at Bogota published an article bv 

 H. Apolinar Maria on insects in the pastures of the savannah of 

 Bogota. 



In the year 1927 the Departamento de Agricultura y Zootecnia 

 was founded, and among the Technical Divisions created in the 

 Department was that of Entomology. Senor Luis Maria Murillo was 

 placed in charge of this division. He submitted a report on June i. 

 1929, outlining his organization. A small laboratory had been estab- 



