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Information has been received from Mr. M. M. High, Brownsville, Texas, and from 

 Prof. F. W. ^lally, County Agent, Laredo, Texas, that a considerable acreage of 

 onions and garlic have been saved from the ravages of the onion thrips by the control 

 measures advised by the Bureau of Entomology at Mission, Mercedes, Harlingen, 

 Laredo and Brownsville. 



Mr. George F. Moznette, formerly instructor, has been appointed Assistant Pro- 

 fessor in Entomology at the Oregon Agricultural College and Station, and began his 

 duties March 1. Mr. Moznette has just completed a year's advanced work in En- 

 tomology at the University of California at Berkeley and will be engaged in research 

 problems at the Oregon Station. 



Mr. J. R. Horton, Bureau of Entomology, has closed up his station at Xew Orleans 

 and has left for Southern California to study the Argentine ant as affected by Pacific 

 Coast conditions. He will do this work in cooperation with Mr. Woglum at the 

 Pasadena Station. The California end of this investigation will probably be com- 

 pleted within two or three months. 



At the Southern Rocky Moimtain Station, Bureau of Entomology, Colorado 

 Springs, Colo., a camp was established on March 7 on the east slope of Pike's Peak, 

 at an altitude of 9,500 feet. From this station special studies will be made by Mr. J. 

 H. Pollock on the "Relation of Altitude to the Periodical Phenomena of Insects," 

 along with other special and general projects. 



]Mr. H. G. Ingerson, Bureau of Entomology, who has been assisting Mr. Simanton 

 at Benton Harbor, Mich., in connection with orchard-insecticide and spraying- 

 machinery investigations, after spending some little time in Washington in the prep- 

 aration of his field notes, has now returned to the field for the purpose of undertaking 

 investigations of the grape-berrj' moth and other grape insects in northern Ohio. 



Mr. N. F. Howard, Bureau of Entomology, who was engaged during the past sum- 

 mer in work on the root-maggots and other insects injurious to onion and cruciferous 

 crops at Green Bay, Wis., and who has been studying for a Master's and Doctor's 

 degree at the Ohio State L^niversity, has been engaged to continue the work begun at 

 that Station, and also to investigate insects as carriers of pickle diseases. 



As a result of experiments carried on by the branch of Cereal and Forest Insect 

 Investigations, Bureau of Entomologj^ during the past winter, it has been deter- 

 mined that Laphygma frugiperda S & A. wintered over in the pupal and larval stages 

 as far north as northern Florida and central Texas but failed to do so in Oklahoma. 

 The results in wintering-over expei-iments have not yet been secui'ed for Kansas, 

 Georgia and South Carolina. 



Dr. W. M. Wheeler of the Bussey Institution, in attendance at the meeting of the 

 National Academy at Washington, April 17-19, spent part of a day in the L^. S. 

 National Museum stvidying the collection of ants left by the late Theo. Pergande. 

 jSIr. Pergande's entire collection has been given to the Museum by his daughter. The 

 ants are in good condition, but many of the insects of the other orders have been un- 

 cared for in late years and badly eaten by Dermestids. 



A new and important project of the Bureau of Entomology for the coming year 

 will be an investigation in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry of insects 

 as carriers of mosaic and other diseases of cucumbers and other cucurbits with special 

 reference to the pickle industry of the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. 



