December, ’24] 
CONNECTICUT ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING 
673 
been reared in Connecticut but not identified. Dr. Garman reported on nicotine 
sprays to kill the eggs as practiced in the Middle Atlantic States and mentioned his 
own experiments in Connecticut which gave only partial control. 
Mr. R. C. Botsford, Deputy in Charge of Mosquito Elimination, Agricultural 
Experiment Station, New Haven, was the last speaker and gave a brief history of 
anti-mosquito activities in Connecticut, habits and life history of mosquitoes, and 
explained the work carried out during 1924, most of which was maintenance. Some 
new dikes were built and culverts and tide gates installed. 
Messrs. Zappe, Friend, Walden, Garman and Botsford illustrated their talks by 
lantern slides. 
There were a number of opinions expressed, all to the effect that the meeting had 
been a success and a hope that other meetings may be held in the future. The follow¬ 
ing were present: Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Burgess, A. F. Burgess, Jr., C. W. Collins, 
H. L. Blaisdell, S. S. Crossman, Melrose Highlands, Mass.; L. H. Worthley, D. J. 
Caffrey, R. A. Vickery, T. M. Cannon, Arlington, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
Hartzell, Yonkers, N. Y.; H. C. Huckett, Riverhead, N. Y.; H. J. Evans, Mineola, 
N. Y.; D. G. Murphy, Pittsfield, Mass.; H. A. Ames, Bound Brook, N. J.; Pro¬ 
fessors Alexander Petrunkevitch and W. R. Coe, Yale University, New Haven, 
Conn.; Professors G. H. Lamson, Jr., J. A. Manter, L. B. Crandall and A. J. Grady, 
T. F. Cronin, V. A. Johnson, J. W. Balock, Storrs, Conn.; F. C. Rich, Ansonia, 
Conn.; W. A. Collins, New Milford, Conn.; J. J. Pillsbury, Burnside, Conn.; 
Professor Pauline H. Dederer, Connecticut College for Women, New London, Conn.; 
S. E. May, Canaan, Conn.; P. H. Meagher, Wallingford, Conn.; John T. Ashworth, 
J. W. Longo, A. J. Gilbert, H. A. Woodmancy, H. E. Cook, O. B. Cooke, C. M. 
Spencer, Danielson, Conn.; Dolor LaBelle, Ballouville, Conn.; James A. McEvoy, 
Putnam, Conn.; A. W. Yates, Hartford, Conn.; H. W. Coley, Westport, Conn.; 
E. J. Smith, Clintonville, Conn.; Mr. and Airs. Henry S. Woolley, Waterbury, 
Conn.; P. L. Buterick, New Haven, Conn.; Robert E. O’Brien, New Haven, 
Conn.; and Messrs. W. L. Slate, Jr., E. H. Jenkins, G. P. Clinton, E. M. Stoddard, 
G. E. Graham, Philip Garman, AI. P. Zappe, B. H. Walden, R. C. Botsford, R. B. 
Friend, Leslie Rogers and W. E. Britton of the Agricultural Experiment Station, 
New Haven, Conn. 
W. E. B. 
