48 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
SMOKER FOR DR. REED 
Dr. H. S. Reed, physiologist of the Citrus Experiment Sta- 
tion of California, located at Riverside, California, passed 
through Gainesville and was entertained at a joint meeting of © 
the Entomological Society and the Horticultural Seminar on 
Dec. 13. Dr. Reed is spending a part of his sabbatical leave 
studying citrus conditions in both North and Central America 
and perhaps part of South America. Dr. Reed came to Florida © 
from Mexico, where he spent four weeks in going over the most 
highly developed citrus regions in that country. 
Dr. Reed spoke to the two societies on the results of his 
experimental work at Riverside, going deeply into the causes of 
the development or inertia of buds, a problem which strikes at 
the very fundamentals of pruning practice. 
While Dr. Reed was in Florida it was made possible for him 
through the courtesy of the State Plant Board to visit the dif- 
ferent citrus sections of our State, going down the ridge to the 
East Coast. He spent a part of his time through the northern | 
part of the district and a few days in the Pinellas Peninsula. 
Before he left the State a letter was received in which he ex- 
pressed his appreciation of the kindness shown him while in 
the State and also giving his impressions of our citrus section. 
There were two things that impressed him very much; first, the 
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great amount of new groves planted in the last five years, and © 
secondly, the amount of disease present in all old groves. In 
fact, it was his impression that the life of an orange tree in 
Florida was limited by disease. Two diseases which he spoke 
of as being of the greatest importance in the State were Melan- 
ose—Stem-end Rot and Dieback. 
Dr. Reed’s work in California is studying the effects of prun- 
ing on both citrus and deciduous fruit trees. He is making a 
quantitative study in groves, and the effects that pruning may 
have on the tree if practiced at various seasons throughout the | 
year. O. F. BURGER. 
ON SOME NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN TINGIDAE 
(HEMIP.) 
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collected many Tingidae and other Hemptera in the West Indies. 
Hesperotingis (Melanorophala) duryi confusa new variety. 
Differs from M. duryi O. & D. in having the third antennal segment © 
strongly swollen towards the apex and the pronotal carinae slightly more 
