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TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Dr. J. M. Robinson, of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, spent 
December 1 examining specimens of the genus Diabrotica in the collec- 
== tion of Coleoptera. 

Prof. C. C. Ghosh, entomologist in the agricultural college at 
Mandalay, Burma, visited the Division of Insects on December 6. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck, of the bureau's gipsy-moth and brown-tail 
moth laboratory, at Melrose Highlands, Mass., spent December 7 to 14 
in Washington, studying the collection of braconid wasps, particular-- 
ly certain genotypes, and consulting with the specialists on parasitic - 
Hymenoptera. 
Prof. A. W. Lindsey, of Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, 
a well-known student of the Hesperiidae, recently called at the National 
Museum to consult with the bureau lepidopterisis. 
Cornelius B. Philip, who has recently been in Lagos, South Nigeria, 
working on the yellow fever investigations for the International Health 
Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, stopped in Washington December 18 
and 19 to compare some mosquitoes with material in the National collec- 
tion. He was on his way to Montana, where he will undertake work on the 
Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 
E. T. Boardman, of the department of zoology, Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, Baltimore, spent December 23 in the National Museum, studying 
the tick collection and consulting with Dr. Ewing. 
George G. Ainslie, of the Bureau's cereal and forage insect lab-— 
oratory at West uafayetie, Ind., came to Washington December 26, and 
plans to spend about two months in the taxonomic unit working on the 
North American Crambidae.. 
INSECT PEST SURVEY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
J. A. Hyslop attended the annual meeting of the American As- 
sociation of Economic Entomologists at Des Moines, Iowa, December 30 to 
January 2, and presided over the newly recognized section, the Section of 
Extension. He also presented the annual summary of insect conditions in 
the United States for 1929, and attended the annual conference on the 
Hessian fly. 
