5 At a meeting held in New York on January 6, the insurance interests voted not 
to meet the request of the millers. With ro funds made available, and with 
Subsequent disagreement arising among the exporting millers using the ports 
of New Orleans and Galveston, the Bureau of Entomology is relieved of the bur- 
den of issuing certificates Stating that the mills receiving them are reason- 
ably free from insect pests, 

FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 

Dr. F. C. Craighead returned February 23 from a trip to the Forest. 
Insect Field Station at Palo Alto, Calif., where a conference was held Feb- 
ruary 9 to 16 on the control of forest insects in the West. 

TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, Entomologist, in Charge 
; Mr. and Mrs. B. Mortensen, connected with investigations of the prickly 
‘pear in Australia, spent several days of February in the Division of Insects 
interviewing various specialists about insects injurious to cacti. They 
brought for identification a number of specimens collected or reared in 
Mexico. IL. F. Hitchcock, of the same investigations, also recently visited 
the Division of Insects and brought with him soecimens he had collected in 
' ,the West Indies. 
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. dr. Stanislaw Minkiewicz, of the Institute of Agricultural ‘Research, yy 
"Fulawy, Poland, is spending several weeks in the Division of Insects, looking 
Over various groups of insects that are injurious to Polish crops, He is 
also interested in methods of handling collections and keeping track of 
literature. 
_- Dr..B. A. Schwarz has received several long letters from R. C. 
Shannon, giving an-account of a collecting trip taken by Mr. Shannon and Dr. 
F. W. Edwards, of the British Museum, and their wives. They went into the 
‘southern part of the Andes, crossing into Chile and returning by rail to 
_ Buenos Aires. They report a very successful collecting trip, in the course 
of which they found many new insects. | 
ms Messrs, Jaynes and Gardner, of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, who 
have just returned from Japan and China, visited the Division of Insects in 
mune latter part of February. 
A. O. Larsen, of Stored Product Insect Investigations, has been con- 
ferring with Dr. A. G. Bbving on the taxonomic separation of the very similar 
* mature larvae of the two bean beetles Mylabris obtectus Say and Mylabris 
- guadrimaculatus Fab. As a result of the ciscussion a short paper on the 
subject is now under preparation by Dr. Boving. 
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