JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



DECEMBER, 1913 



The editors will thankfully receive news items and other matter likely to be of in- 

 terest to subscribers. Papers will be published, so far as possible, in the order of re- 

 ception. All extended contributions, at least, should be in the hands of the editor the 

 first of the month preceding publication. Contributors are requested to supply electro- 

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Nearly seven j^ears have elapsed since the economic entomologists 

 assembled at New Orleans. They have been years of progress and 

 prosperity, at least so far as entomological developments in the south- 

 ern part of the country are concerned. The Atlanta gathering will 

 be largely attended by southern entomologists, and the investigator 

 located in the north will have at this meeting a most excellent oppor- 

 tunity of talking wdth the men who are doing things in the warmer 

 sections of this country, and through them obtain a better idea of 

 their special problems. Entomologists at a distance are strongly 

 urged to make an effort to be present and take part in a meeting 

 which promises to be one of the most successful of recent years. 



The stable fly, formerly held as a comparatively innocuous insect, 

 stands convicted as a carrier of infantile paralysis and now the finger 

 of suspicion^ has been pointed at it in connection with the mysterious 

 Pellagra, an infection which some have thought might be carried 

 by species of Simulium. American investigations of this latter genus 

 have failed to produce conclusive evidence of complicity on the 

 part of Simulium, and it now remains to be seen if this latest arraign- 

 ment will be followed by indictment. There is still much to be learned 

 concerning the Diptera and it is to be hoped that the interest aroused 

 in the groups containing pathogenic forms will be extended and result 

 in studies of the numerous unknown flies and the bringing of our 

 knowledge concerning the order up to a state comparable to that 

 relating to the Coleoptera, Lepidoptera or Hymenoptera. 



11913, Jennings, A. H. and King, W. V. Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., 146:411. (Sepa- 

 rate p. 1-30.) 



