April, '13] MORRILL: ENTOMOLOGICAL PIONEERING 185 



worth our consideration. I would like to ask if he wishes to place it in 

 the form of a motion. 



Mr. E. p. Felt: I think the information might be useful to some of 

 our men and I move that the chairman appoint a committee of three 

 to investigate the use to which our publications are put and report at 

 the next meeting. 



Mr. T. B. Symons: I believe the press bulletin and such forms of 

 matter that are gotten out from week to week are very useful supple- 

 ments to the general station bulletins. I second Mr. Felt's motion. 

 I have been wondering if we should not have a press committee whose 

 business it would he to see that our meetings are advertised in a general 

 way throughout the country. 



By vote of the Association the motion was carried. 



President W. D. Hunter: The next paper will be by Mr. A. W. 

 Morrill on "Entomological Pioneering in Arizona." 



ENTOMOLOGICAL PIONEERING IN ARIZONA 



By A. W. Morrill, Phoenix, Ariz. 



In the selection of my title for this paper I do not wish to intimate 

 that my field of action during the past three years has been one here- 

 tofore completely ignored by entomologists. It is a fact, nevertheless, 

 that Arizona is entomologically in a pioneer stage of development. 

 One by one the last few remaining states and territories have been 

 yielding to the necessities for the organization and maintenance of an 

 entomological service, and, not to be last, Arizona gave recognition 

 to these necessities in 1909. Until that year Arizona was, in the 

 words of Director R. H. Forbes of the State Experiment Station, 

 ^'Entomologically lawless," and I may add entomologically needy of 

 exploration and investigation. The state was, and is, a field for ento- 

 mological work uniquely varied in itself, attractively different from other 

 sections in its native insect fauna and above all affording excellent, if 

 not unexcelled, opportunities for accomphshment in the exclusion of 

 undesired pests as well as in insect investigations. Before dealing 

 with the more recent entomological records and events, I will briefly 

 review the "lawless" era prior to 1909 and as a further introduction I 

 will outline our peculiar climatic and agricultural conditions upon 

 which our entomological status, particularly^ from an economic stand- 

 point, is dependent. 



Historical. An examination of the indices of the Experiment 

 Station Record, "Insect Life" and of other publications of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture shows that in economic literature 

 published prior to 1909, references to Arizona insects rarely occur. A 



