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eastern Michigan but also that the degree of infestation has increased in 
several districts. The reports for northwestern Pennsylvania, western New 
York, and Massachusetts are much more favorable. The report of the results 
of clean-up work on Long Island, in the vicinity of Brooklyn, is very en- 
couraging. 
Resolutions expressing appreciation for the valuable services ren- 
dered by George I. Reeves, Zntomologist, in charge of the Salt Lake City 
laboratory, have been received from representatives of California and Nevada 
who just recently held a conference at Reno, Nev., relative to the alfalfa 
weevil investigations. 
W. R. Walton left Washington September 28 for Arlington, Mass., where 
he will inspect the European corn borer work conducted by the Arlington 
laboratory. 
MISCELLANEOUS INVESTIGATIONS 
(Items from the National Museum Contributed by S. A. Rohwer) 
Fred M. Schott, of Brooklyn, N. Y., recently in the service of the 
State of New Jersey, was for a week, while in Washington, a frequent visitor 
to the Division of Insects, and brought with him a number of insects for 
identification by the specialists. 
Messrs. Nicolai, Shoemaker, and Quersfeldt, of New York, recently 
spent a week doing miscellaneous collecting in the vicinity of Washington 
and visited the Section of Insects to meet the members of its force and con- 
sult with the coleopterists. 3 
Captain Bartlett, who commanded the vessel "Roosevelt! on Peary's 
expedition to the North Pole, called on Dr. Aldrich October 1 to clear up 
some questions concerning specimens collected on the expedition. The speci- 
mens had been previously sent to the Museum in pill boxes, with only the 
date and locality of collection. It is believed that as a result of this 
conference with Captain Bartlett more information will. be available, the 
specimens will be of more value, and a more accurate record will be pre- 
served of the entomological results of the expedition. 
Prof. WwW. M. Wheeler, of Harvard University, has sent to the Museum 
paratypes of an extraordinary larval: myrmecophile which he collected in 
Panama and recently described as Nothomicrodon aztecarum, new species. 
They are very small insects with no legs and few organs, shaped like a 
little bag or flask with the head sticking out at one end. It is supposed 
that they belong to the Diptera, but it is impossible to tell with any cer- 
tainty to what family, as no one has previously found anything like them. 
