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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Dr. H. W. Allen, of the Japanese Beetle Laboratory, who, with H. 
A. Jaynes, has recently made an intensive study of the eastern Asiatic 
species of Tiphia accumulated in the course of the work of collecting 
parasites of the Japanese beetle, was in the Museum November 1 and 2, 
and deposited a considerable series of specimens of the genus in the col- 
lection of Hymenoptera. 
A. K. Wyatt, of Chicago, an entomologist interested in Lepidoptera, 
recently spent a few days at the Museum examining material with A. Busck. 
Dr. W: V. King, of the Bureau of Entomology, who has been engaged 
in mosquito work at Mound, La., visited the Museum November 10 to study 
species of the genus Anopheles. Dr. King has an appointment from the 
International Health Board to visit the Philippine Islands, where he is 
to make a special study of mosquitoes of this genus. He will spend sev— 
eral months in field work in the Islands, and will then return for a 
critical study of his material. 
Dr. F. F. Russell, Director of the International Health Board, 
Rockefeller Foundation, together with Prof. Missiroli and three other 
Italian experts on malaria, called on November 15 to consult Dr. Dyar. 
R. C. Mundell, of Brisbane, Australia, and E, Mortenson, of Texas, 
engaged in investigations of insect enemies of the prickly pear in the 
Commonwealth of Australia, stopped in Washington November 15 to consult 
with W. S. Fisher and to obtain determinations of material. They were 
on their way to South America in search of insects destructive to the. 
prickly pear cactus. 
On November 19 Dr. C. H. T. Townsend, of Lima, Peru, and formerly 
of this Bureau, arrived in Washington, and will spend a month examining 
genotypes of muscoid flies. He has recently made similar studies in the 
European museums, and has in progress a large work on this group. 
Dr. S. B. Grubbs, of the United States Public Health ServyiGer 
called November 19 to consult with Dr. Dyar in regard to the habits of 
the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The matter under consideration relates to 
the establishment of new rules for fumigating ships in the Canal Zone. 
Dr. H. L. Parker, of the Corn Borer Laboratory, Hyéres, France, 
called at the Museum Ni: vember 20 to discuss with the Bureau specialists 
various phases of his investigations, especially those dealing with hy— 
menopterous parasites. 
W. H. W. Komp, of the United States Public Health Service, who is 
on his way to Almirante, Panama, to undertake under Dr. Barber studies 
relating to malaria, recentl; spent several days at the Museum ate 
the mosquitoes with which he is likely to deal there. 
