Wilfred (Wilfrid?) John Hall; Rev. appl. Ent. A 46 197 W.J. Hall was a coccid specialist and another of the much travelled entomologists. In 1923 he was Entomologist with the Agriculture Department in Cairo, then in the early 1930s was in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia). From Ghana, he described a mealybug vector of cocoa swollen shoot virus (information given and reports cited in Entwistle, 1972) and was denoted by the naming of Crematogaster buchneri junior synonym halli. G. F. Cotterell, who was in Ghana (Gold Coast) from before 1926 to at least 1942), being in the Department of Agriculture and finally at the "Central Cocoa Research Station, Tafo", also worked on capsids, collecting Monomorium rosae, in December 1940 (as Diplomorium cotterelli, in Donisthorpe, 1942b), and Polyrhachis weissi. http://antbase.org/ants/africa/history2.htm SEE also Pearson, 1966, Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. (C) 30: 62-63. |