October, '17] CURRENT NOTES 509 



Dr. D. W. Pierce, Bureau of Entomology, made a general trip in July through 

 the South, visiting the laboratories at Madison, FL, Mound, La., Clarksville, Tenn., 

 Dallas, Texas, Uvalde, Te.xas, and El Centro, CaUf . 



Mr. F, E. Brooks, Bureau of Entomology, in charge of the laboratory at French 

 Creek, W, Va., visited Michigan and Wisconsin during the latter part of Jime in con- 

 nection with his studies of apple-tree and other borers. 



Mr. D. M. Rogers, in charge of gipsy moth quarantine and inspection work, Bureau 

 •of Entomology, has moved his office from No. 43 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., to 

 the Boston Custom House, effective September 1, 1917. 



Messrs. T. L. Guyton, J. R. Stear and P. R. Lowry, all entomological students from 

 the Ohio State University, were employed during the summer months by the en- 

 tomological department of the Ohio Station at Wooster. 



Mr. G. S. DeMuth, Bureau of Entomology, went to Blacksburg, Va., August 16 

 to attend a meeting of beekeepers held at that place during Farmers' Week. At this 

 meeting the Virginia State Beekeepers' Association was organized. 



During July and August Mr. V. L. Wildermuth, Bureau of Entomology, made an 

 extended insect survey through the northern part of Arizona, being accompanied, for 

 a portion of the time, by Dr. O. C. Bartlett, Assistant State Entomologist. 



A bill will probably be considered by the Texas legislature now in special session 

 providing for the establishment of a cotton-free zone to include the counties bordering 

 on Mexico, such zone to be administered in cooperation with the Federal Horticultural 

 Board. 



Mr. Kenneth Hawkins, Bureau of Entomology, left Washington July 9 to attend 

 state meetings of county agents in Oklahoma, Texas and other Southern States, and 

 spent the latter part of August in Virginia, holding local meetings of beekeepers in 

 cooperation with county agents. 



Dr. D. W. Pierce, Bureau of Entomology, finds several species of European origin 

 among our GymnoBtron and Miarus and therefore desires to receive for study material 

 from all parts of the country. Gymnadron breeds in the flowers of Verbascum and 

 lAnaria, and Miarus breeds in the flowers of Lobelia. 



Recent visitors to the Bureau of Entomology include Professor K. W. Dammermann, 

 Java; Professor H. Garman, Lexington, Ky.; Professors E. R. SchoU, F. B. Paddock, 

 S. W. Bilsing, entomologists, and Mr. E. L. Ayers, Chief Nursery Inspector, Texas; 

 H. G. Barber, Roselle Park, N. J.; Carl J. Drake, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Mr. R. D. Whitmarsh, assistant entomologist of the Ohio Station, served as mihtary 

 instructor at the University of Wooster during the spring months, devoting four 

 afternoons each week to this instruction. Mr. Whitmarsh has volimteered for the 

 Second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, Ind. 



Mr. Simon Marcovitch, assistant entomologist for the past three years at the 

 University of Minnesota, has resigned his position to accept an offer as head of the 

 Department of Biology at the National Farm School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 

 Mr. Marcovitch expected to leave September 14 to take up his new duties in the 

 East. 



The following resignations from the Bureau of Entomology have been announced: 

 Miss Myrtle Duckett, Bee Culture; B. L. Royden, Truck Crop Insect Investigations; 



