238 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY [Vol. 5 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



G. H. Verrall, the eminent English dipterist, and a former president of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London, died September 16, 1911, at sixty-four years of age. 



Mr. E. S. Tucker of the Bureau of Entomology is studying the insects attacking 

 stored rice, and is located at Baton Rouge, La. 



Mr. E. W. Stafford, who resigned from the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed assistant entomologist of the Oklahoma Station. 



Dr. C. W. Hooker of the Bureau of Entomology has been appointed entomologist 

 of the Porto Rico Federal Experiment Station, and has entered upon his duties. 



Messrs. Harper Dean and F. B. Paddock of the Texas Agricultural College have 

 also been appointed assistant entomologists of the experiment Station, and Mr. 

 Dean will give his entire time to the Station work. 



Professor G. M. Bentley, State Entomologist of Tennessee, was recently re-elected 

 secretary-treasurer of the Tennessee State Nurserymen's Association, at its annual 

 meeting held at Nashville. 



Mr. John D. Tothill, B.S.A., formerly in charge of the Tachinid parasite work 

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

 appointed to the Canadian Division of Entomology, and is at present in charge of 

 the brown-tail moth campaign in New Brunswick. 



Mr. Germain Beaulieu, B. A., LL. B., who has devoted particular attention to 

 the insects of the province of Quebec, has been appointed to the staff of the Canadian 

 Division of Entomology, and, in addition to carrying on investigations in Quebec, 

 will study particularly the heteropterous Hemiptera. 



During a recent visit to England, Doctor Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist of 

 Canada, searched for the parasites of the larch sawfly, and discovered a locality in 

 whieh they were fairly abundant. An attempt viall be made to introduce them into 

 Manitoba, where the sawfly is spreading westward. 



Mr. Wm. A. Ross, B. S. A., of the Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada, who 

 was carrying out investigations on the apple maggot under the direction of Mr. L. 

 Caesar of that college last year, has been appointed as field officer, and will be located 

 in a field station in the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. 



It may be of interest to note that during the present season's inspection of Euro- 

 pean nursery stock by the Canadian Division of Entomology under the "Destructive 

 Insect and Pest Act," of which work Mr. Arthur Gibson, Chief Assistant Entomol- 

 ogist, has charge, pupaj (fortunately dead) of the gypsy moth were found on azaleas 

 imported into Ontario from Belgium, indicating the possibility of the importation 

 of this insect on such plants. 



According to Science, the late Dr. A. S. Packard of Brown Universitj' was at work 

 on a third volume of the series on the Bombycid Moths of North America, two 

 volumes of which have been published by the National Academy; the third treats 

 of the large silk-producing moths, and the material had been placed in the hands 

 of Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell of the University of Colorado, who will edit it for pubh- 

 cation. 



