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llr>;fina, 111., June 17, 1911. 
Itr. . . L. Van iJine, 
lio Piedx’ao, P. R 
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I iiiH enclosing iierev/it?! a report of p.ro^’res;>o on luy work 
30 far, Gince leavin^^ Crowley n the lOth inst* 
Ac tin^^ on the tions of _ r* C'.rn.v/ley in his letter of inst^uc — 
lions v/enl to llev/ Orleans to confer v/ith :;r. Tarher. He reports 
very little dai4a£^e from Lii^yrus or -uiy Laclinostema aronnd there this 
year, altnoii,^jh last year the ciamat^c was much /jreater* >*^r* J arker had 
some three year old cane stuhtle plov/ed up while I v^as there nnd a 
careful searcli mac^e for any v^rliite ^^ruls. In all we found t^/o ij.miature 
sta.jes and 8 adult* stages, the latter l/ein^']j %5 Cyclocephalas anci 5 of a 
species of Lachno st^:^ma* 
i..r* Jfarher reports ne^jative results frOiU a search for parasites 
and is \7onderin^; how J.i tus found any at all. Last receialer and January 
\.vhi Le the pic^v/in^ v</as join^^ on he collected a few hundred larvae, none 
of whi ch seeiiiec to le parasitized. These were placed in a tox of '^irt 
n,ncl upon e'/.n,j.iination the iS’th of this juonth showed that uiany had pu- 
pated and a few ’.vere already adults. 
a.y iiiJi)ression is, as is also ..ir. Parber’s, that IJew Orleans terri- 
tory cannot Le rated very hi^jhiy as a source of parasites. 
".hile we v/ere looking for wiiite ;rucs in the plowed cane plot, 
jaany hjlish sparrows were noticed looking; for insects and two were 
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noticed flyin^" off wi ta v/bite i;ruLs. 
On three different occasions I called at the Picayune office Lut 
was unable to find I.tr. P2d. outer in. I then went over to lulane and 
called on ]’rof. i. F., heyer, Qrni tholojist tjiere and ixe iiave j.ie a list 
