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FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
Thos. I. Catchings, of the camphor scale laboratory, visited A. & 
M. College, Mississippi,‘ Nov. 15 to 18, to confer with officials of the 
Mississippi Plant Board and to give information concerning the camphor 
scale before a meeting of Piant Board inspectors. 
J. B. Gill, in charge of the pecah insect. daboratory at. Thomasville, 
Ga., svent the afternocn of November 24 in New Orleans, visiting pecan 
insect infestations tnere and conferring with workers at the camphor scale 
laboratory. 
QO. I. Seapp, in charge of the Fort Valley Ga., peach insect in- 
vestigations, states that scale spraying has started in the Georgia peach 
belt, and from present indications at least three-fourths of the acreage 
Will be treated with lubricating-oil emulsion this year. He also states 
that uniformly gcod results of the use of paradichlorobenzene are reported 
from all sections of the belt. xcellent weather conditions prevailed 
during the period when the chemical: was ‘applied to the trees. 
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MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum, contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
A. P. Dodds. who is working for the Australian Government on cactus 
insects, has recently been consulting specialists in the Museum with regard 
to the identity of some of the insects which he has been studying in the 
Southwest. 
Professor Brumot, of the Medical School in Paris, has been spending 
some days in Washington, and while here called upon several specialists in 
the Division of Insects. He Was especially interested in examining speci- 
mens of the hemipterous genus Triatoma from South America, since some mem- 
bers of this group are concerned in the spreading of chagas fever. 
Dr. H. BE. Ewing. spant a week at the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Canbridge, working with Nathan Banks on types of mites. On his way back 
to Washington he made a visit to the American Museum of Natural History. 
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y A consignment of Brezilian. mosquitoes collected by Dr. J. Bequaert, 
of the Harvard Medical School, was recently received by Dr. Dyar and Mr. 
Shapnon. It incluced a uuwrber of species new to the National Collection, 
including four new to science, one of them being a species of Anopheles. 
In a large Skhinment of insects recently received from Rev. D. GC. 
Graham, collected in the mountainous western portion of the Province of 
Szechuen, China, were included several boxes of Diptera, comprising the 
