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In view of the intimate relation which is recognised as existing between certain 

 insects and the propagation of diseases of botli man and animals in Tropical Africa, 

 and of the similar relation bet ween insects and economic plants which is becoming 

 more evident as settlement in the Continent progresses, the Earl of Crewe has 

 appointed a Scientific Committee, whose object it will be to further the study of 

 economic Entomology with special reference to Africa. 



This body will be known as the African Entomological Research Committee ; 

 and the Earl of Cromer has kindly consented to act as Chairman. The other 

 Members of the Committee are : — 



Colonel A. Alcock, CLE., F.R.8., London School of Tropical Medicine ; 

 Mr. E. E. Austen, Natural History Museum ; Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, Director, 

 Sleeping Sickness Bureau ; Dr. J. Rose Bradford, E^.R.S., Secretary, Royal Society ; 

 Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S. ; Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S., Keeper of Zoology, 

 British Museum ; Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall, Entomological Adviser, Board of 

 Agriculture ; Sir John Macfadyean, Royal Veterinary College ; Sir Patrick Manson, 

 K.C.M.G., F.R.S. ; Mr. R. Newstead, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ; 

 Dr. G. F. Nuttall, F.R.S., Quick Professor of Biology, Cambridge; Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, D.'-c., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology, Oxford ; Lieut. -Colonel D. Prain, 

 CLE., F.R.S., Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Mr. H.J. Read, C.M.G., 

 representing the Colonial Office ; The Hon N. C Rothschild ; Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S. ; 

 Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., Cambridge University ; Mr. S. Stockman, Chief Veter- 

 inary Officer, Board of Agriculture ; Mr. F. V. Theobald, Agricultural College, 

 Wye ; and Mr. C Warburton, Cambridge [Jniversity. Mr. A. C. C. Parkinson, of 

 the Colonial Office, is acting as Seci'etary to the Committee, and Mr. Guy A. K. 

 Marshall as Scientific Secretary. 



Arrangements are now being made to despatch a trained Entomologist to the 

 east side of Tropical Africa and another to tha west for the purpose of stimulating 

 official and other residents to collect and observe noxious insects, and of affording 

 instruction in the use of scientific methods. By this means it is hoped to obtain 

 throughout these territories an organized body of investigators who will com- 

 municate all their collections and observations to the Committee. The collections 

 will be classified by a number of British and, in some instances, Continental 

 Entomologists, and named specimens will be distributed to such institutions as may 

 require them for purposes of instruction, both at home and in Africa. — Eds. / 



Bagous brevin, GylL, ^-c., in the New Forest. — Amongst a number of specimens 

 of Bagous frit captured by Mr. J. J. Walker and myself on June 18th last, on the 

 banks of a pond at Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, there was a single example of 

 B. brevis, Gyll. The latter has only been recorded from one British locality, 

 Horsell, Surrey, and, curiously enough, Nanophyes gracilis, Faracymus nigroasneus, 

 and Stenus longitarsis occurred with the two Bagoi, insects found in the same 

 Surrey habitat. Aphodius niger, Panz., recently noted from the New Forest by Dr. 

 Sharp {aiitea, p. 124;), was also taken in quantities from the banks of the aforesaid 

 pond. — G. C Champion, Horsell, Woking : September 7th, 1909. 



Further British examples of Diastictus vulneratiis, Sturm. — The note on 

 Diastictus in the last number of this Magazine {anted, p. 197) reminds me that two 



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