22 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



I forgot to tell you that we expect to destroy all of the voet- 

 gangers this season in the inhabited areas of the Transvaal, 

 while in the uninhabited areas we expect that many swarms 

 will escape us. 



I have devised a plan for showing living specimens of eggs, 

 larvae, pupse, and adults of mosquitoes on the screen with a 

 lantern. I tried it with success, on one occasion, before the 

 Transvaal Medical Association. It is as follows: Take two 

 glass plates slightly smaller than a lantern slide and put them 

 together so that they will be about one-half an inch apart, mak- 

 ing this waterproof wdth water glass. Or you may be able to 

 buy a cell which will answer. Make a slide cover into which 

 this cell will fit, and, upon placing it in the lantern and focus- 

 ing, the insects will come out most distinctly and much en- 

 larged. In a dry cell the adults can also be shown well. The 

 unfortunate thing is that the picture is inverted, but I asked 

 my audience to imagine that they were standing on their heads. 

 During this lecture I had only one Anopheles larva. It stayed 

 at the bottom for a full two minutes. I explained what it was 

 expected to do, and when I had finished it came up to the sur- 

 face and took its horizontal position as though it had been 

 trained. Needless to say, it was watched with great interest 

 by the audience and its good behavior was rewarded by cheers 

 from the medicos. 



I have little news to tell aside from that which relates to my 

 work. There is great political activity here, but, much to our 

 liking, all of the parties have agreed among themselves to keep 

 the Agricultural Department entirely out of politics. My 

 work here is most pleasant, and if the unexpected does not 

 happen I shall probably spend the remainder of my life here, 

 especially since I'm married here. I do want a vacation, as 

 the work at present is most trying. One day last week I dic- 

 tated 40 letters and 36 telegrams, very few being alike. 



Doctor Howard spoke further upon the great work done by 

 Mr. Simpson in South Africa, and especially upon his success 

 in dealing with the locust problem, for which large sums were 

 appropriated by the South African colonies. 



— Mr. Barber spoke of a scolytid beetle resembling Phloeo- 

 sinus which he had collected in the Southwest in pinyon. 

 Doctor Hopkins stated that this insect probably belongs to the 

 genus Carphoborus, several species of which are abundant in 



