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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Madame Lidia Antinoro, Stazione Sperimentale por la Lotta Anti- 
malarica, Rome, Italy, spent parts of the interval June 5 to 20 in the 
National Museum, examining the collections of ticks, mosquitoes, and 
blood—sucking flies, and in consultation with H. E. Ewing and C. T. 
Greene, the Bureau's specialists in these groups. 
T. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, Imperial Entomologist of India, located 
at Pusa, India, recently donated to Mr. Busck for the collections about 
600 species of Indian Microlepidoptera, all reared and authoritatively 
named. This gift makes a very important addition to the National col- 
lections, and will aid materially in the identification of specimens 
from the region about Pusa. 
Richard Dow, a student at the Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, 
Mass., visited the taxonomic unit June 11, to examine certain sphecoid 
wasps of the genera Trypoxylon and Podium in the collections. 
On June 20 Dr.. E. A. Chapin, of the Bureau's taxonomic unit; 
left Washington to spend about 10 days examining the collection of 
beetles in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., at the 
Japanese Beetle Laboratory, Moorestown, N. J., and in the American 
Museum of Natural History, New York City. 
Alan Nicolay, of Montclair, N. J., spent June 27 in the National 
Museum, examining types of beetles in the Casey Collection of Coleop-— 
tera. 
Dr. W. Dwight Pierce arrived in Washington from the Philippine 
Islands about June 1, and is making his temporary headquarters at the 
National Museum. He is revising manuscripts and seeing to the identi- 
fications of various economic insects which he sent back from the Phil-— 
ippines, as a result of his intensive work on sugarcane insects there. 
INSECT PEST SURVEY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
Dr. F. M. Wadley, of the Insect Pest Survey, was in Kansas and 
adjoining States for about six weeks in May and June, observing the 
recurrence of Brood IV of the periodical cicada. He made a consider— 
able addition to survey records. Some environmental studies were made 
which are of special interest because this brood extends farther west 
than any other, and farther south than other 17-year broods except those 
which occur in the mountains. , 
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