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TAXONOMIC INVESTIGATIONS 
Harold Morrison, in Charge 
George H. Harrington, an oil geologist associated with the Standard 
Oil Company, and who for several years was located in northwestern Argentina, 
recently called at the National Museum and donated to it a large number of 
Argentinian and Bolivian beetles which he had collected during the past 
decade. Many of these were taken by him in the course of geological in— 
vestigations along the Rio Beni, and consequently are an important supplement 
to the collection of beetles from the same region made by Dr. W. M. Mann 
on the Mulford Biological Expedition in 1921 and 1922. 
A. B. Gahan has recently been the recipient of two important ship— 
ments of the C. F. Baker collection, including specimens that had been sent 
by Professor Baker to specialists for study. Dr. G. Grandi, Instituto di 
Z00logia, R. Universita, Bologna, Italy, sent a number of specimens of fig 
insects, among which are several types of new species described by him. 
Dr. L. Masi, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa, Italy, returned a por-— 
tion of the material of the family Chalcididae. Several types of Dr. Masi's 
new species were included in this consignment. 
Late in February J. ©. Elmore, of the Garden Grove, Calif., field 
laboratory of Truck Crop Insect Investigations, consulted with Dr. A. G, 
Boving and Mr. H. S. Barber regarding some of the descriptions of the stages 
of species which he is considering in his manuscript on the pepper weevil, 
Anthonomus eugenii. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
The following members of the division attended the meetings of the 
North Central States Entomologists at East Lansing, Mich., on February 28 
and March 1: W.H. Larrimer, D. J. Caffrey, C. M. Packard, George I. Reeves, 
Philip Luginbill, F. L. Simanton, W. A. Baker, F. F. Dicke, C. H. Batchelder, 
W. B. Noble, and Curtis Benton. 
sessions of the Annual Research Conference of Corn Borer Insecticide 
Investigators, of which C. H. Batchelder is chairman, were held on February 
27 and 28, in connection with these meetings. 
George W. Still has accepted a transfer from Arlington, Mass., to 
Sandusky, Ohio. | 
Gilbert T. Bottger and John L. Breitwieser have been appointed Junior 
Entomologists, for duty at Monroe, Mich., and Arlington, Mass., respec— 
tively. 

