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Recent Changes of Location.— Dr. Clarence M. Weed, formerly ento- 

 mologist and botanist of the Ohio State Experiment Station, has^ 

 recently been elected to the chair of zoology in Dartmouth College, at 

 Hanover, New Hampshire, 



Mr. F. M. Webster, a field agent of this Division, who has been sta- 

 tioned for several j'ears past at Lafayette, Indiana, has been transferred 

 to the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, at Columbus. 



Mr, F. J. Niswander, late assistant in entomology at the Agricultural 

 College of Michigan, has accepted the office of entomologist to the 

 Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, at Laramie. 



Mr. C. W. Woodworth, formerly of the State Experiment Station at 

 Fayette ville, Arkansas, has lately been appointed entomologist of the 

 experiment station of the University of California, at Berkeley. 



Mr. C. P. Gillette, late entomologist at the agricultural experiment 

 station located at Ames, Iowa, has been transferred to the Colorado 

 Experiment Station, at Fort Collins, Coloi'ado. 



SOME ICERYA AND VEDALIA NOTES. 



As the figures which we have previously published of Vedalia cardi- 

 nalis have not been as perfect as they should have been, owing to the 

 fact that the material first received was poor, we publish herewith more 

 careful drawings made from living specimens. It must be stated that 



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Pig. 31. — Vedalia cardinalU: a, larva, dorsal view; 6, Larva, from side; c, pupa; d, adult — enlarged 



(original). 



while perfectly fresh adults exhibit the markings as plainly as shown 

 at d, the majority of those found at work upon the scales are dull in 

 color and more or less indistinct in maculation. We have recently had 

 some international correspondence of interest relative to Icerya and 

 Vedalia, which we summarize herewith. 



On April 9, 1890, the Secretary for Agriculture of Cape Town, South 

 Africa, wrote to the Secretary of the United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture, stating that Icerya purchasi had steadily increased in South 



