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Oregon, Corvallis, — H. F. Wilson. 

 The rod spider mites of Oregon. 



Tennessee, Knoxville, — E. C. Cotton. 

 North American fever tick. 



Investigations dealing with Thysanoptera 

 Connecticut, New Haven, — W. E. Britton. 

 Control of onion thrips. 

 Beginning made. 



Florida, Gainesville,^ — -J. R. Watson. 

 Thrips on tomatoes. 



Massachusetts, Amherst, — H. T. Fernald. 

 Methods for the control of onion thrips on large fields. 

 Work completed. 



New Mexico, State College, — D. E. Merrill. 

 Onion thrips. 



Very little was done this last year on account of shortage of funds. 



New York, Cornell University, Ithaca, — Glenn W. Herrick. 

 An investigation of onion thrips in New York. J. C. Faure in charge. 

 The work is completed. 



New York, Geneva, — P. J. Parrott. 

 The life history, habits and distribution in New York of the pear thrips, Euthrips pyri. 



Investigations dealing with Mallophaga and Anoplura 



California, Stanford University, — V. L. Kellogg. 

 Preparation of complete mammalian host list (with distribution of the hosts) of the 

 known Mallophaga and Anoplura, with study of the significance of the host 

 and geographic distribution of the parasites. 



The host list completed: the study imder way. 

 (with S. Nakayama). Comparative morphology of the Mallophaga and Anoplura, 

 and the taxonomic study of collections from mammals of California, birds of 

 Antarctic Ocean, Scotland, "England, etc. 

 Work well under way. 



New York, Cornell University, Ithaca, — Glenn W. Herrick. 

 The Mallophaga of domestic fowls. 



Investigations dealing xoith Orthoptera 



Kansas, Manhattan, — Geo. A. Dean. 

 Habits and life history of injurious grasshoppers, together with methods of control. 



Geo. A. Dean. 

 Parasitic and predaceous enemies of grasshoppers, Paul S. Welch. 



Nebraska, Lincoln, — Myron H. Swenk. 

 Grasshopper control. Lawrence Bruner in charge. 

 Substantial progress. 



