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Prof. A. L. Quaintance, Bureau of Entomology, left Washington about the middle 

 of September for a trip through the Western States to confer with the men who are 

 in charge of various deciduous fruit insect field stations. En route he will visit the 

 following stations : North East, Pa.; Benton Harbor, Mich.; Grand Junction, Col.; 

 Walnut Creek, Cal., and Wenatchee, Wash. 



Mr. R. J. Fiske was appointed August 20 to the position of scientific assistant in 

 the Bureau of Entomology, and has been stationed temporarily at Grand Junction, 

 Col., where he will carry on investigations of the codling moth. Mr. Fiske is a gi-ad- 

 uate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, class of 1910, and before entering 

 the Bureau was engaged in entomological work in Porto Rico. 



Mr. N. E. Shaw, chief inspector. Department of Agriculture, Columbus, Ohio, 

 reports that several gypsy moth egg-clusters have been found on a shipment of stone 

 received in Ohio from Massachusetts. This occurrence emphasizes the necessity of 

 action being taken to prevent the distribution of egg-clusters into uninfested terri- 

 tory on shipments not subject to inspection by the Federal Horticultural Board. 



Mr. Leonard S. McLaine, assistant to Dr. C. (Gordon Hewitt, dominion entomol- 

 ogist of Canada, has recently returned to Canada. Mr. McLaine has been stationed 

 at the Gypsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass., and has been engaged 

 in collecting parasites of the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth for shipment to 

 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where an attempt will be made to colonize these 

 species. 



Mr. R. S. Woglum, Bureau of Entomology, who is in charge of the investigation of 

 «itrus insects in California, reports that the mealy bug investigations are progress- 

 ing in a satisfactory manner. The life history of Pseudococcus ciiri for this season of 

 the year has been determined, and preliminary life history work has been under- 

 taken with a Chrysopid and Hemerobiid, predatory enemies of the citrus mealy bug. 



There is an unusual outbreak of Alabama argillacea in the Southern States this 

 season, and moths have appeared at lights in northern locahties. Notes are desired 

 from as many northern locahties as possible regarding the exact dates of the first 

 appearances of these moths, the dates of the maximum appearances and of the dis- 

 appearance of the insect. Records of this kind have been kept for several years, and 

 notes made during the present season will be especially valuable. 



In connection with the work on the wilt disease of the gypsy moth, which is being 

 carried on by Messrs. R. W. Glaser and J. W. Cliapman, at the Bussey Institution, 

 a number of quite similar polyhedral diseases have been found in native caterpillars. 

 In case caterpillars are found which have apparently died from any bacterial disease 

 in any part of the country, or at any of the field stations of the Bureau, a small 

 number of specimens are very much desired for study. These can be shipped in a 

 dry condition, but it will facilitate the work very much if a note accompanies the 

 sending stating where the caterpillars were found and giving any other information 

 about the species concerned. 



The thirty-fourth annual Museum Expedition of the Department of Entomology, 

 under the direction of the Curator of the Museum, Professor S. J. Hunter, spent 

 the month of August in the Rocky Mountains, in Southwestern Colorado, working 

 along the New Mexico line. There were six (S. J. Hunter, H. B. Hungerford, Ray- 

 mond Beamer, Wm. Brown, fellow, F. Poose, research, the cook) in the party and 

 they returned with eight thousand specimens. 



