February, '15] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS 



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New York, Geneva, — P. J. Parrott. 

 Life history, habits, distribution of the apple and cherry ermine moths. 

 Life histories of species, of Xylina and Scopelosoma. B. B. Fulton in immediate charge, 



Ohio, Wooster, — H. A. Gossard. 

 Life history of codling moth at Wooster; some data, studies of second brood in all 



sections of state. 



Life history and economics of clover leaf-roller. Notes for three or four seasons. 

 Control of grapeberry worm. Experimental work practically finished. Life history 



incomplete. W. H. Goodwin in charge. 

 Life history and control of peach tree borer; two years' observations; substantial 



progress; large remedial tests. J. L. King in immediate charge. 

 Life history and treatment for the lesser peach borer, as in preceding. 



Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, — H. A. Surface. 

 Experiments for control of the peach tree borer. Work completed. 



South Dakota, Brookings,— H. C. Severin. 

 Life history and control of native cutworms. Begun in 1910. . 



Investigations Dealing with Diptera 



Colorado, Fort ColHns,— C. P. Gillette. 

 Syrphus flies and plant Uce; continued three years; considerable material. C. R. 



Jones in immediate charge. 

 Life habits of the lady beetles. Paper pubhshed. Miss M. A. Palmer in immediate 



charge. 



Connecticut, New Haven, — W. E. Britton. 

 Cabbage maggot control. Begun 1908. Q. S. Lowry aiding. 

 Onion maggot control. Begun in 1914. B. H. Walden aiding, 



Connecticut, New Haven, — W. E. Britton. 

 Control of mosquitoes in Connecticut; effect of drainage on salt marsh; changes in 



flora. Begun 1912. B. H. Walden aiding. 



Hawaii, Honolulu, — J, F. Illingworth. 

 Melon fhes (Dacus cucurhitce Coq.), control measures, begun 1914, well started. 



Kansas, Lawrence, — S. J. Hunter. 

 Tabanidae of Kansas, R. H. Beamer. 



SimuHum, study of connection with transmission of Pellagra. S. J. Hunter. 



SimiHum, Ecology and morphology. H. B. Hungerford. 



Hessian fly, methods of control. S. J. Hunter and P. W. Claassen. 



Kansas, Manhattan, — Geo. A. Dean. 

 Life history and control of the Hessian fly. Geo. A. Dean and J. W. McColloch. 



Massachusetts, Amherst, — H. T. Fernald. 

 Control of onion maggot on large fields. Progress satisfactory. 



Missouri, Columbia, — L. Haseman. 

 Life history of the Hessian fly and resistant varieties of wheat. 



New Hampshire, Durham, — W. C. O'Kane and C. H. Hadley, Jr. 

 Control of root maggots with insecticides; two seasons' preliminary work completed. 

 Control of black flies, deer flies and midges. In progress. 



New Jersey, New Brunswick, — T. J. Headlee. 

 Typhoid fly: Data necessary for practical control work of it and its associates. 



Charles S. Beckwith and T. J. Headlee in 1913, C. H. Richardson in 1914. See 



reports 1913, 1914. 



Mosquito investigations: Data for practical control work. T. J. Headlee. See 

 reports 1913, 1914, also Circ. 17. 



