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The United Fruit Company has done much to encourage agricul- 

 tural production, and from time to time has commissioned entomolo- 

 gists for short periods to visit especially Honduras for investigations 

 and advice. 



In the effort to secure official information for me, the Director 

 General of the Pan American Union, Dr. L. S. Rowe, very kindly 

 sent letters to the Ministers of Agriculture of the different countries 

 asking concerning any official work that had been done or that had 

 been undertaken regarding injurious insects. The Minister of Agri- 

 culture and Labor of Nicaragua, Sefior J. A. Cabrera, courteously 

 replied that there was nothing of note that could be reported. The 

 absence of infonnation from the other countries means plainly that 

 nothing official has been done. 



There is at the present time, and has been for some years, an 

 enlightened Ministry of Agriculture in Guatemala, and there has been 

 published at Guatemala City a bulletin entitled " Boletin de Agricul- 

 tura y Caminos." In the number for June and July, 1929, there are 

 outlined the plans for a new Chemicoagricultural Institute under 

 the Ministry of Agriculture, and in the number for May, 1929, was 

 published an interesting article on the insects injurious to coffee 

 by Manuel A. Bardales, Agricultural Engineer, apparently connected 

 with the National Central School of Agriculture. In this he treats 

 of the species of the genus Lecanium that affect the coffee plant. 



Collections and studies in Guatemala have been made by the 

 writer's colleagues, E. A. Schwarz, Herbert Barber, William Schaus, 

 James Barnes, and O. F. Cook ; and the last named, Professor Cook, 

 being greatly interested in cotton, at one time found a predatory ant 

 in Guatemala known locally as the " kelep " which he thought pro- 

 tected cotton in that country from the so-called Mexican cotton boll 

 weevil. He brought a colony of this ant to the States, and it was 

 studied and encouraged for some time at Victoria, Texas, but the 

 species did not accommodate itself to Texas conditions. 



A rather lengthy manuscript report has been received from the 

 Ministerio de Agricultura of Guatemala, through the courtesy of the 

 Pan American Union, which indicates that constant attention is being 

 paid to the study of entomology in Guatemala although no trained 

 entomologist seems to be employed. Two agronomical engineers, 

 namely Senor Jorge Garcia Salas and Seiior Jose Cosyins, have made 

 trips through the different agricultural regions of the Republic, in- 

 vestigating the occurrence of injurious insects and of plant diseases. 

 It was reported that the European corn borer had made its appear- 

 ance in the corn fields near Ciudad Veija. When this report reached 



