June, '16] CURRENT NOTES 385 



The ''green bug" outlook for Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas is considerably im- 

 proved over the conditions of last fall. However, there is still a possibilit}^ of a seri- 

 ous infestation of this insect during the coming spring, providing meteorological 

 conditions prove favorable. 



Mr. T. H. Parks, formerly extension entomologist of Idaho, and for several years 

 entomological assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed extension 

 entomologist of the Kansas State Agricultural College. Mr. Parks began his work 

 in Kansas the middle of March. 



Mr. A. C. Baker, Bureau of Entomology, who has been engaged in life-history 

 studies of plant lice, with headquarters at Vienna, Va., has been transferred to Wash- 

 ington, D. C, as permanent headquarters, where he will continue life-history studies 

 of plant lice and sj'stematic work with Aphididse. 



According to Science, Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C, and Professor Antonio Berlese of Rome, have been elected honor- 

 &Y\ fellows of the Entomological Society of London, to fill vacancies caused by the 

 deaths of J. H. Fabre and Brunner von Wattenwyl. 



Mr. R. B. Ellis, who has studied entomology at the Agricultural College at Man- 

 hattan, Kan., has been engaged by the Bureau of Entomology, to assist in work on 

 insects injurious to sugar beets and truck crops at Wichita, Kan., where Mr. F. B. 

 Milliken is in charge of the local station. 



Mr. B. L. Boyden, Bureau of Entomology, who has been engaged in experimental 

 work on the sugar-beet wireworms and other insects injurious to sugar heel, beans, 

 and other truck crops at Oxnard, Cal., has taken permanent headquarters at Pasa- 

 dena, Cal., the Oxnard station remaining as a substation. 



Mr. George S. Demuth, Bureau of Entomology, will leave soon for Winchester, 

 Va., to resume the work on the effect on bees of spraying fruit trees, in cooperation 

 with the Office of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations. The work will also prob- 

 ablj' be continued at a more northern point at a later date. 



Mr. S. L. Mason has been appointed as scientific assistant in the Bureau of En- 

 tomology and detailed to assist Mr. John J. Davis at the West Lafayette, Ind., field 

 station. Mr. Mason takes the place of Mr. Daniel G. Tower, who has been trans- 

 ferred to the Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Insect Investigations. 



]\Ir. E. B. Blakeslee, Bureau of Entomology, who has been in Washington preparing 

 notes on the subject of his field investigations, has returned to the field to resume his 

 investigations of peach insects and will spend a good deal of his time this season in 

 the neighborhood of Springfield, W. Va., investigating the peach-tree borer. 



Mr. W. W. Yothers, Bureau of Entomology, is about to take up a new phase of the 

 citrus insect problem of Florida, namely, a study of the insects and insect control in 

 relation to the extensive culture of limes on the Florida Keys. Mr. Yothers has 

 been requested to submit a detailed project plan of this work for approval. 



The field station of the Bureau of Entomology at Batesburg, S. C, which has been 

 in operation for several years, has been discontinued. Mr. E. A. McGregor, who was 

 in charge, has been detailed to work on cotton insects in the Imperial Vallej- of 

 California. Mr. F. L. McDonough is now stationed atQuincy, Fla.,on work with 

 tobacco insects. 



