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O. T. Deen, who has been working under Mr. High's direction on the 
Australian tomato weevil, left the service on August.3, at the termina- 
tion of his temporary appointment. | 
J. R. Douglass, in charge of the Estancia, N» M., laboratory, re- 
ports that Dr. A. H. Wright, of the Zoology Department, Cornell University, 
visited the laboratory on August 29, 
TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
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Dr. A. G. Bbving returned August 15 from his trip to Europe, where 
he spent considerable time studying the collections of coleopterous larvae 
in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and the British Museume He met many of his old 
colleagues and discussed various phases of his work with them, and arranged 
for large exchanges of coleopterous adults and larvae. 
H. G. Barber has been spending about two weeks in the Section of 
Insects, working on a catalogue of the Iygaeidae of the vorld, which he has 
undertaken in cooperation with other hemipterists who are preparing a 
catalogue of the Hemiptera of the world. 
Letters have been received from Raymond Shannon, telling of his 
travels in Germany and Czecho-Slovakia. hile in ratte he had an op- 
portunity to meet the well known dipterist Theo. Becker, and to obtain some 
very interesting information concerning boyhood friends of Dr. E. A. Schwarz. 
Mr, Shannon then went to Iondon and spent Some time studying mosquitoes in 
the British Museum, He expects to sail for home in the latter part of 
Auguste 
George P. Inglehardt, of the Brooklyn Museum, recently spent one day 
in the Division of Insects, studying certain moths and COneeRr Ihe: with the 
lepidopterists,. 
GC, T. Greene is undertaking studies of the larvae and pupae of the 
dipterous family Agromyzidae, and will be very glad to receive specimens’ 
of the immature stages of any member of this family. It is especially de- 
Sired that these specimens be associated with adults, so that it will be 
possible to verify the identifications. Species of this family are usually 
leaf-miners, and some of them are of considerable importance. In the last 
Monthly Letter it was stated that Mr. Greene would like to obtain immature 
Specimens of the family Anthomyiidae; itis ‘er oe that representatives of 
both these families may be obtained. 
