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served as a description. In the opinion of Mr. Schwarz the 

 description was insufficient, and the name should either be 

 credited to Doctor Dyar, who suggested it, or to Doctor Skin- 

 ner, who figured the species on the cover of Entomological 

 News. 



— Mr. Schwarz called the attention of the members of the 

 Society to the collection of Phengodini now in the National 

 Museum, and invited such as so desired to examine it. It 

 contains nearly all of the species described from this country, 

 the representatives of certain of which had been loaned to the 

 Museum and would soon have to be returned. 



— Doctor Howard spoke of the death, on January 14, 1907, 

 of a former member, Mr. C. B. Simpson, Entomologist of the 

 Transvaal Department of Agriculture, South Africa, and read 

 a part of the last letter he had received from him and which 

 reached Washington after his death. The letter was dated 

 November 21, 1906. At the suggestion of Mr. Schwarz it 

 was voted that portions of it be published in the proceedings 

 of the Society ; they are given below : 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM THE TRANSVAAL. 

 By C. B. Simpson. 



I have before me the biggest locust campaign that I have 

 ever undertaken — probably the largest that has been systemat- 

 ically taken in hand in the world. 



In order to show you what we are doing I would say that 

 I have 84 men and 20 paid Kaffirs in the field. The remainder 

 are called Assistant District Officers, and it is their duty to 

 actually kill locusts on Crown lands, native locations, and un- 

 occupied farms. Most of these are hardy Boers of the type 

 that kept Kitchener busy. In addition to the farm workers 

 we have power to call out the natives and make them work 

 without pay. We are using the arsenite of soda almost exclu- 

 sively with most marvelous results. We had 16 English tons 

 of it which is now exhausted, and a new supply of 2| tons 

 arrived today. In reserve we have about 5 tons of arsenic. 

 We have about 1200 bucket spray pumps loaned out and a 

 further 400 will arrive next week. To date we have used 25 

 tons of crude sugar. I was given £12,000 to carry out this 



