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related in a later part of this bulletin, and many of them have been 
described in some detail in Technical Series No. 12, Part VI, Bureau 
of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture (190S), 
by Mr. Townsend. 
Similarly Mr. Burgess, in charge of the Coleoptera, succeeded in 
u very perfect way in rearing and liberating the important European 
predatory beetle, Calosoma sycophemta, as well as some other insects 
of the family Carabid®. 
While these extensive importations from Europe were going on, 
Japan had by no means been lost sight of. While it seemed probable 
that the European parasites in themselves would succeed in reestab- 
lishing the balance of nature in New England, and in spite of the 
somewhat dangerous nature of Japanese importations on the ground 
that the Japanese gipsy moth is probably a different species and 
might prove in New England even more voracious and destructive 
than the European moth, there as at DO time any intention to neglect 
Japan in the search for effective parasites. Continuous correspond- 
ence had been carried on with Japanese entomologists, and some 
shipments had been made by correspondents which resulted unsuc- 
cessfully. For sonic time the Apanteles previously mentioned was 
the only gipsy-moth parasite known to occur in Japan. Later 
information was received from Prof. U. Nawa, of Gifii, Japan, to the 
effect that there exists in Japan an important egg parasite of the 
gipsy moth. Dining tin 4 previous annual trips of the Chief of the 
Bureau of Entomology to Europe the European service of collectors, 
agents, and advisers had been well organized and instructed, and the 
work during 1908 was reasonably sure to be well continued without 
further personal consultation: it was therefore decided to interrupt 
the European trip for 1!K)S and to send a skilled agent to Japan. In 
considering the appointment of such an agent, Prof. Trevor Kincaid, 
of the University of Washington at Seattle, was at once suggested 
to the mind of the writer, primarily on account of his extraordinary 
skill as a collector, as indicated in the remarkable results of his work 
on the Harriman expedition to Alaska in lMMt, and also on account 
of his comparative proximity to Japan and the fact that he was per- 
sonally acquainted with many persons in Japan. Jle was therefore 
recommended to the State officials of Massachusetts for appointment, 
and was commissioned by the State to undertake the expedition. 
At the same time he was formally appointed a collaborator of the 
Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, and the Japanese Government was formally notified by the 
honorable the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Department of 
State, of the intended visit, the writer having also notified by per- 
sonal correspondence some of the well-known Japanese entomologists. 
Prof. Kincaid sailed from Seattle on March 2, and the results of his 
