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Wight disease, which is now found throughout Great Britain and in certain 
countries of continental Evrope, and the conference dealt mainly with the 
situation in the several countries of Europe. It was the wmanimous opin- 
ion of the conference that no importations should be made unless they may 
be made entirely without danger to the beekeeping interests of the comtry 
and that the greatest care should be exercised in making exceptions as 
provided in the law. 
An effort will be made through the bureau to import such queenbees 
as shall be urgently needed from countries where desirable races of bees 
are found, subject to such examinations and quarantine by the bureau as 
Shall be necessary, It was recommended by the conference that the Dominion 
of Canada be fully exempted from the prohibition of importations, since the 
Isle of Wight disease is not found in that country and since the Dominion 
has taken steps to prevent its introduction. 
The regulations as suggested by the bureau were endorsed by the 
conference unanimously, with only minor verbal changes to prevent any 
misunderstanding of the regulations, These will not be effective until 
finally drafted and approved, 
The following persons were among those present at the conference 
from outside Washington: R. B, Willson, New York State College of 
Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y.; N, E. Phillips, Pennsylvania State College, 
State College, Pa.; George H. Rea, representative of the A. I. Root Co., 
Medina, Ohio; E. N, Cory, State entomologist, College Fark, Md.; Kennith 
Hawkins, The G. B, Lewis Company, Watertown, Wis.; T, K, Massie, State 
inspector of apiaries and president of State Beekeepers’ Association, 
Hatcher, W, Va, 

MI SCELLANEOUS 
Dr. W. T. M, Forbes, of Cornell University, is spending about three 
weeks in the section of insects comparing exotic Lepidoptera with the types 
and making other notes on the material in the National Collection. 
S. W. Frost, of State College, Pa., a student especially interested 
in dipterous leaf-miners, has spent about two weeks studying the Diptera 
in the National Museum. He has devoted most of his time to species belong- 
ing to the family Agromyzidae. 
H, S. Barber has recently returned from the West and brought with 
him a single specimen collected in California of the very rare and inten 
ing genus Grylloblatta. The genus Grylloblatta has been made the type of 
a distinct order and heretofore was kmown only from specimens collected in 
British Columbia. This is the first species of this genus in the National 
Collection and is of such interest that Mr. Caudell has recently prepared 
a paper describing the specimen and giving notes on its occurrence. The 
specimen captured is an immature male and may possibly represent a second 
species of this monotypic genus, but because of the absence of sufficient 
material Mr. Caudell prefers to refer it, at least provisionally, to the 
described species, 

