June, '11] CURRENT NOTES 351 



Current Notes 



Conducted by the Associate Editor 



The Peruvian government has extended the contract of Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, 

 as Entomologist of State, to December 31, 1912, at a substantial increase of salary. 

 Mr. Townsend expects to conduct extended work with parasites and predaceans 

 during the next two years against the white scale of cotton {Hemichionaspis minor), 

 the cotton-square weevil {Anlhonomus vestilus or n. sp.), and several other important 

 cotton insects in Peru. Measures are under way to establish a cotton insect labora- 

 tory at Piura, with an area of growing cotton for experimental purposes attached, 

 and to secure a trained assistant from North America who can qualify for research 

 work on pests and parasites. Mr. Townsend's address will continue to be Piura 

 (Piura), Peru, South America. 



Mr. John J. Davis has resigned his position with Prof. S. A. Forbes, state ento- 

 mologist of Illinois, and is now connected with the Bureau of Entomology. His work 

 is especially on Lachnosterna and Aphididce, under Prof. F. M. Webster, and his 

 headquarters for the present will be at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Lafay- 

 ette, Ind. 



Mr. D. K. McMillan of the Bureau of Entomology, who has been stationed at 

 Brownsville-, Texas, and engaged in truck crop investigations, has resigned to ac- 

 cept a position with Prof. S. A. Forbes in similar work in Illinois. His entomological 

 friends and associates gave him a farewell dinner on March 8, according to Ento- 

 mologicnl A'eirs. 



Fred E. Brooks has resigned as associate entomologist of the West Virginia Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station to take up work with the Bureau of Entomology. Mr. 

 Brooks will have charge of investigations of certain fruit insects throughout the 

 Appalachian region under the direction of Professor Quaintance. His field station 

 will be at French Creek, W. Va. 



Mr. Walter S. Abbott, assistant in entomology at the New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, resigned March 1 to accept an appointment as assistant in 

 charge of collections, records and insectary at the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 of Illinois at Urbana, under Prof. S. A. Forbes. 



Prof. William B. Alwood, formerly state entomologist of Virginia, now of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, sailed April 13 for Gibraltar. He will investigate the viticul- 

 tural conditions of Southern Europe and attend the International Agricultural Con- 

 gress at Madrid. 



At the University of California, work has commenced on the new agricultural 

 building, which will be constructed of white granite and will be 162 by 64 feet in 

 size. The entomological department will have quarters on the second floor of this 

 building. 



The Alabama legislature has just appropriated to the Experiment Station $26,800 

 annually, of which $2,300 is for combatting the cotton boll weevil and other inju- 

 rious insects. 



William H. Dean, Jr., formerly of the Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed 

 assistant entomologist of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. 



