24 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1944 
areas, and nearly as many sample- of miscellaneous insects collected 
on Army tran>port planes opera t ing ahroad. It included also personal 
instruction to 122 ollicers in the identification, of mosquitoes and other 
insects involved in the transmission of human diseases. In addition, 
the Medical Intelligence Branch of the Ollice of the Surgeon General 
of the Army has been furnished, upon request, pertinent detailed in- 
formation on all insects of medical importance known to occur in spec- 
ified foreign areas: and an annotated bibliography of the literature 
dealing with the yellow-fever mosquito, covering moie than 1.200 pub- 
lished papers, has been prepared for the U. S. Public Health Service. 
FOREIGN PARASITE INTRODUCTION 
PARASITE IMPORTATIONS FROM SOUTH AMERICA 
As an aid in the control of important insect pests of agricultural 
crops, a total of 1G consignments of parasites and predators were for- 
warded to the United States from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, 
and 4 consignments were sent to Puerto Rico from Brazil. 
Vegetable weevil parasites imported from Argentina and Uruguay 
consisted of 8,083 puparia of Epiplagiops littoralis Blanch. , 4,370 
cocoons of Porizon sp., and 195 cocoons of Triaspis sp. For use 
against various species of army worms, 947 puparia of Pseudoarchy- 
topsis sp. were forwarded from Uruguay and 271 Phorocera sp. and 
248 Calosoma argentinense Csiki from Argentina. Importations of 
corn earworm parasites from Uruguay consisted of 1G9 puparia of 
Actioplagia sp. and 23 cocoons of Paniscus sp. A total of 2,195 pu- 
paria of Paratheresia diatraeae (Brethes), a parasite of the sugarcane 
borer, were sent to Puerto Rico. 
COOPERATION WITH STATE, TERRITORIAL, AND FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS 
Cooperative work with the Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment 
Station included the foregoing shipments of sugarcane borer para- 
sites from Brazil, and two consignments of 2.255 adults of Hamblc- 
tonia pscudococcina Comp. received from that station for release 
against the pineapple mealybug in Florida. Two consignments total- 
ing 600 adults of Allot ropa utilis Mues. for test upon the Comstock 
mealybug and 200 cocoons of Cryptus sejraiwulatus Grav., a parasite 
of the codling moth, were received through the courtesy of the Cana- 
dian Department of Agriculture* 
In furtherance of the cooperative work with the California Agri- 
cult ural Kxperiment Station, 1.S1S E pi pi <igi<>ps littoralis Blanch., 4,370 
Porizon sp., and 120 T /iaspissp. from South America were forwarded 
for rearing and release in that State. For tin 4 biological control of 
army worms 1S1 adults of P.s, udonrch ytopsix sp., 1-53 Phorocera sp., 
and UV.) ( ' alosoma <trg< vtincnst Csiki, also from South America, were 
forwarded to the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station for field 
release. Parasitized squash bugs were collected in Connecticut and 
New Jersey, and 1,175 puparia of Trichopoda pi niiijns (F.) were ob- 
tained from them for forwarding to the Washington Agricultural 
Experiment Station for rearing and release in that State. A total of 
2,200 adults of the woolly apple aphid parasite Aphclinus maU I laid., 
