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neura (Tfiysoruna) lanigera while at Cornell University. He consid- 

 ered it a most excellent piece of work, which as yet was unpublished. 

 Mr. Hopkins desired to know the present status of the gypsy moth. 



Mr. Fernald replied that he had been all over the gypsy moth terri- 

 tory several times during the past summer. At the time when work 

 with this insect ceased, owing to cessation of support from the legisla- 

 ture, the gypsy moth territory had been exeeedinglv reduced, and in 

 the greater part of that territory the moth could not be found at all, 

 except a straggler here and there, but it would take days of hunting 

 to find it. In the original centers of infestation, namely, Medford, 

 Maiden, and Belmont, the moth was still in fair abundance. The 

 work during the later years had been to drive the insect toward the 

 center from the outside. It is not three years since the work stop- 

 ped, and the moth is as yet scarcely anywhere as abundant as it was 

 when at its worst. So far as he was able to judge, the moth had 

 nowhere spread to its original outside bounds, but it was Aery bad in a 

 number of places. 



The meeting then adjourned, to reassemble on the following day at 

 10 a. in. 



MORNING SESSION— SATURDA V. DECEMBER /;, 1902. 



Mr. Marlatt gave an illustrated Lecture on applied entomolog} T in 

 Japan, covering the subject of entomological schools and establish- 

 ments and the practical workers in the science, and also a general 

 account of the principal insect enemies of the more important fruits 

 and field crops. The lecture was illustrated b} r lantern slides of ento- 

 mological establishments, charts of important insects, and nearly a 

 hundred views of agricultural and horticultural scenes. The follow- 

 ing paper is an abstract by the author: 



APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY IN JAPAN. 



By C. L. Marlatt. 

 OFFICIAL ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



The study of insects injurious to agriculture and horticulture has 

 an official status in Japan in connection with the department of agri- 

 culture and commerce, and with agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations very much as in this countiy. At the central experiment sta- 

 tion at Nishigahara, near Tokyo, is a well-equipped entomological 

 laboratory and experimental greenhouse and gardens, looked after by 

 four or five capable entomologists under the direction of the chief 

 entomologist, Mr. S. Onuki. This is the central and chief entomo- 

 logical bureau of the Empire. Some ratner bulky monographs, giv- 



