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Three specimens of Plectris aliena Chpn. have been sent in from 
the Japanese beetle lavoratory, Moorestown, N. J., to EH. A. Chagas 
who has verified their tentative identification as this species. These 
specimens were taken in Japanese beetle traps at Charleston, 5S. Cig 
Sevannah, Ga., and Miami, Fla. The Georgia and Florida records are 
new and greatly widen the known distribution of the species. 
In the course of his fruit fly identifications, covering the 
Mexican orange worm worl in the lower Rio Grande valley, F. H. Ben- 
jamin has recently recognized a new segregate, of incompletely de— 
termine? status, but closely resembling Anastrepha ludens, in the 
trap material that is being submitted to him. 
Mr. Benjamin has recently identified and added to the Museum 
collections several interesting specimens received from Frank Morton 
Jones of Wilmington, Del. The species include Melipotis januaris 
Guen, and Chloronteryx peuleria Moesch., both collected in Florida 
and not previously reported from the United States. 
Sarees Busck has just completed a paper describing, as a new 
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genus anc species, sre Erne AS of a small moth found feeding in Port- 
land, sia on Cotoneaster horizontalis, a Chinese plant of the 
family Hosaceae, ‘The specimens come in for determination fromd. R. 
Roaf, Corvallis, Oregz. Since the insect. shows no close relationship 
to any American species of its family, Mr. Busck feels that it as 
lefitimate to suspect that it has been introduced from China with 
its host plant. Because of the immense economic importance of the 
host family, the species ee be watched carefully. 
Mrs. J. Bonne-Wepster, of the a aaa Laboratory, Batavia, Java, 
is spending several weeks at the National Museum studying Philippine 
mosquitoes. This is Mrs. Bonne—We pea oe first visit to this comma 
since 1919, at which time she and Hen husband, Dr. C. Bonne, spent 
some time here studying neotropical mosquitoes in connection with 
the preparation of their valuable book, The Mosquitoes of Surinam. 
Dr. Bonne is also in Washington but he now devotes his time to Cancer 
research, 

Specimens of four species of Chalcidoidea, Eurytoma fellis Gi- 
rault, Epimegastigmus brevivalous Girault, EB. trisulcus Girault, 
and a new genus anc species of Megastigminae, all 1l reared from galls 
on citrus, were recently received by A. B. Gahan from N. S. Noble, 
Assistant Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales. 
A paper by Noble (sae Gaz. N.S. Wales, June 1, 1933, pp. 465-469) 
indicates that the Eurytoma causes serious damage to the citrus and 
especially to nursery stock. The record is important economically 
because of the possibility that the insect might be readily spread 
through shipment of nursery stock. 
