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Contributions from the Gipsy-—Moth Laboratcry 
The following persons recently visited the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory: 
Dr. Christine Buisman, Baarn, Holland, and John F. Donnelly, Local Moth 
Superintendent, Cambridge, Mass., October 11; Charles F. Doucette, U. S. 
Bureau of Entomology, Sumner, Wash., October 15; Dr. Philip Garman and 
J. C. Schread, Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Conn., Octo-— 
ber 24; Octave Piel, S. J., Université L'Aurore, Shanghai, China, and 
D. L. Collins and D. W. Farquhar, post-graduate students at Harvard 
University, October 28. 
T. H. Jones, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, attended a meeting of 
Government and State men engaged in moth work, held at Canaan, Conn., 
October 24, and on the following day was present at the sixth Connecticut 
conference of entomologists, held at Storrs, Conn. 
TAXONOMY 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
Frank Johnson, of New York City, spent October 11 and 12 in the 
National Museum, studying material in the collection of Lepidoptera and 
consulting with Dr. William Schaus. 
V. S. L. Pate, of the Department of Entomology, Cornell Univer-— 
Ssity,. Ithaca, N. Y., spent October 15 to 18 examining the oxybeline 
wasps in the National collection, with reference to a revision of the 
species of this tribe. While here he arranged for the loan of the un- 
determined material for study. 
L. P. Rockwood, in charge of the Bureau's field laboratory at 
Forest Grove, Oreg., visited the Taxonomic Unit October 16 to 19 to 
consult with the Bureau specialists on Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Mr. 
Rockwood is making a special study of noctuid larvae of the Pacific 
Northwest and their parasites. 
C. H. Ballou, of the Japanese beetle laboratory, Moorestown, N. J., 
and Mrs. Ballou called at the Division of Insects on October 16 and left 
for determination by the Bureau specialists a number of Coleoptera which 
he had received from Costa Rica. 
J. C. Crawford, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology, on his way 
from Black Mountain, N. C., to New York City, recently stopped in Washing— 
ton and called on the specialists of the Taxonomic Unit. 
Frank DeGrant, of Cleveland, Ohio, an enthusiatic collector and 
student of parasitic Hymenontera, spent October 28 in the Division of 
Insects in consultation with Bureau specialists. 
