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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
S. A. Rohwer, in Charge 
H. G. Barber, of Roselle, N. J., has accepted an appointment with 
the Bureau of Entomology effective June 1, to spend two months ina criti- 
cal study of the neotropical Reduviidae in the National Museum collection. 
Dr. T. Shiraki, of the entomological division of the Japanese ex-— 
periment station at Formosa, visited the Museum June 9 to June 12, and 
studied types of Japanese Diptera. 
Dr. L. H. Taylor, Associate Professor of Zoology in the University 
of West Virginia, arrived in Washington June 11, under an appointment 
with the Bureau of Entomology, and will spend three months studying and 
arranging the Museum collection of Chrysididae. Dr. Taylor is working on 
a revision of the nearctic chrysidids, which will probably be completed 
within a year. 
Dr. F. W. Pettey, senior entomologist of the Department of Inter= 
nal Affairs, Union of South Africa, Cape Town, visited the Museum June 13, 
in search of information regarding certain egg-parasites of South African 
insects. 
Dr. Uunio Saalas, Professor of Entomology at the University of 
Helsingfors, Finland, was in Washington June 16 to June 19, and consulted 
with Dr. Béving and other specialists in the Division of Taxonomy. Dr. 
Saalas is interested in Coleoptera, especially the larvae, and has pub= 
lished extensively on them. While here, he presented copies of several 
of his publications to the National Museum Library. 
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| Se SS the Baragua, Cuba, laboratory of the Tropical 
Plant Research Founda isited the specialists in the Division of Tax— 
onomy June 18. In ilie sertion of Hymenoptera he conferred with Messrs. 
Gahan and Cushman regarding parasites of the sugar—cane moth borer. In 
the section of Coleoptera he discussed Cyclocephala and other Scarabaei= 
dae which affect sugar cane, and promised to send considerable material 
of various groups of Coleoptera, 
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Professor Teiso Esaki, of the Kyushu Imperial University, Fukuoka, 
Japan, studied various Hemiptera in the Museum collecticns June 18 to June 
20, giving particular attention to the Uhler types of Japanese Hemiptera. 
Through the courtesy of H. S. Barber he was taken to Plummer's Island to 
search for aquatic Hemiptera in which he is particularly interested. 
Judson Coxey and R. C. Williams, Jr., of Philadelphia, visited the 
section of Lepidoptera on June 20. 
Dr. Thomas S. Van Aller, of Mobile, Ala., called at the Museum re— 
cently to confer with various specialists, particularly the lepidopter= 
ists and coleopterisis. . 
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