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themselves especially in the subject of economic entomology and 

 are laboring to interest the government. His excellency the governor 

 occasionally attends the meetings of the club, and by the institution 

 of prizes for essays and by similar means a widespread interest in 

 economic entomology is being aroused. The appointment of an official 

 entomologist is probably a matter of only a short time. The Journal 

 of the Field Naturalists' Club is an interesting periodical, full of ento- 

 mological information, and is now in its second volume, 



NEW ZEALAND. 



New Zealauders have for some time been fully alive to the impor- 

 tance of the study of economic entomology. They have passed laws 

 concerning the destruction of the codling moth and have made an 

 effort to establish quarantine regulations against the introdu('tion of 

 infested substances from abroad. No governmental entomologist has 

 been appointed, although the Department of Forestry and Agriculture 

 published, in 1887, a monograph of the CoccidtiB, by Mr. W. M. Maskell, 

 registrar of the University of New Zealand, the title page of wiiich 

 reads: "An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants 

 in New Zealand." A second part of this account was promised in an 

 introductory note, but has not appeared. Mr. Maskell has also written 

 upon injurious insects in some of the New Zealand newspapers. Much 

 credit is due to a corresponding member of this society, Mr. R. Allan 

 Wight, of Auckland, for the public -spirited interest which he has 

 taken in economic entomology. Nearly every number of the New 

 Zealand Farmer for several years has contained lengthy articles from 

 his pen, and he has traveled a great deal for the purpose of lecturing 

 before fruit growers' associations and other farmers' organizations. 

 The editor of the New Zealand Farmer has also helped the good work 

 along, and has published editorially a number of articles upon the sub- 

 ject. New Zealanders are agitating the question of the appointment 

 of an ofiScial entomologist, but at this date seem to have little hope of 

 immediate success. 



AWAIIAN REPUBLIC. 



The newly-organized Hawaiian Eepublic created almost immediately 

 a Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and one of the first acts of 

 this Department was to secure the appointment of Mr. Albert Koebele 

 for three years as entomological expert, at a salary of $3,000 per annum. 

 Led by the results of Mr. Koebele's two expeditions in search of the 

 natural enemies of injurious scale insects in California to a belief that 

 this method of fighting injurious species is of very great importance, 

 the Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry has assigned to Mr. 

 Koebele the duty of first carefully investigating the entomological sit- 

 uation in Hawaii and then traveling in Australia, New Zealand, and 



