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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Auburn E. Brower, of the department of entomology, Cornell Univer— 
sity, Ithaca, N. ¥., came to Washington December 27, and spent several 
days in the section of Lepidoptera. 
‘Homer C@. Will, of the laboratory of entomology, Carnegie. Museum, 
Pittsburg, Pa., who this year has the Carnegie fellowship in entomol— 
wey and is pursuing graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh, 
spent January 3 and 4 in the National Museum examining North American 
sawflies, particularly of the families Pamphilidae and Tenthredinidae. — 
Anthony Spuler, of the Washington State Experiment Station, at 
Wenatchee, called at the Division of Insects on January 4 to look over 
the collection of Diptera. 
F. Martin Brown, of Avon, Conn., came to Washington early in ' 
January and spent three days studying the National collection of Pier-— 
idae and consulting with the Bureau lepidopterists. 
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tory at Moorestown, N. J., spent January 22 to 24 in the section of Cole— 
optera comparing material, both adult and larval forms, of the family - 
Scarabaeidae. 
Dr. B. B, Fulton, of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment 
Stati ai Raleigh, spent January 21 to 25 examining material in the 
collection of Orthoptera, with reference to a revision of the Orthop— 
tera of Oregon. 
Dr. W. Judson Coxey, of the Academy of National Sciences, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., came to Washington January 23 to consult with the Bureau 
specialists in Lepidoptera. 
Alan Nicolay, of Montclair, N. J., spent January 24 and 25 examin-— 
ing Coleoptera in the Casey collection. 
K. A. Salman, of the department of entomology, Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, at Amherst, visited the taxonomic unit January 25. 
E. V. Walter, of the bureau's field laboratory at San Antonio, Tex., 
called at the taxonomic unit January 27 to consult the specialists in 
parasitic Hymenoptera regarding the parasites of the sorghum midze. 
Dr. H. W. Allen, of the Bureau's peach—insect laboratory, at Moores— 
town, N. J., spent January 27 to £9 in the taxonomic unit consulting 
the specialists in parasitic Hymenoptera about the names of parasites 
of the oriental peach moth, He also examined certain wasps of the genus 
Tirhia in the National collection. 
m, of the Bureau's Japanese and Asiatic beetle labora— 
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