February-, '15] ENTOMOLOGICAL IXVESTIGATIOXS 9 



Ix^*ESTIGATIOXS DeALIXG WITH CrUSTACEA 



Mississippi, Agricultural College, — R. W. Harned. 

 The craj^sh of ^lississippi. Slight progress during the year. 



IX'^TESTIGATIOXS DeALIXG VTLTBl MoLLUSCA 



Oregon, Corvallis. — H. F. Wilson. 

 The garden slugs. Begun 1913. A. L, Lovett in immediate charge. 



IXA^ESTIGATIOXS DeALIXG VTITB. AcARIXA 



Connecticut, Xew Haven,^ — W. E. Britton. 

 Control of Greenhouse Mite, Tarsonemus pallidus Banl^s. Begun 1914. Q. S. Lowry 

 aiding. 



Montana, Bozeman, — R. A. Cooley. 

 Tick investigations with particular reference to Dermacentor venustus. 



North Carolina, Raleigh, — Frankhn Sherman, Jr. 

 Red spider on cotton. Life history, habits; begun last year; continued. 



New York, Geneva, — P. J. Parrott. 

 Monographic study of the Eriophyidoe of N. Y. In charge of H. E. Hodgkiss. 



Ixyestigatioxs Dealixg with Thysaxoptera 



Connecticut, Xew Haven — W. E. Britton. 

 Control of Onion Thrips, Thrips tabaci Linde. Begun 1913. B. H. Walden aiding. 



New York, Geneva, — P. J. Parrott. 

 Life history, habits, distribution in New York of the pear thrips, Euthrips pyri. 



IX^TESTIGATIOXS DeALIXG WITH MaLLOPHAGA AXD AxOPLURA 



Calijornia, Stanford University, — V. L. Kellogg. 

 Taxonomic and biologic studies of the Mallophaga and Anoplura. (With G. F. 

 Ferris). Generic and specific revision of the North American Anoplura. Work 

 imder way. 



New York, Cornell University, Ithaca. — Glenn W. Herrick. 

 The MaUophaga of domestic fowls. Ready for pubhcation. 



Ixvestigatioxs Dealixg with Isoptera 

 Kansas, Manhattan, — George A. Dean and J. H. MerriU. 

 A study of the termite {Termes lucifugus). 



Ixvestigatioxs Dealixg with Orthoptera 



Hawaii, Honolulu, — J. F. IlhngA;\''orth . 

 Monograph of Hawaiian Roaches, begun 1913, well under way. 



Idaho, Boise,— T. H. Parks. 

 Snowy tree cricket {Oecanthus niveus). Injuries to ripening prunes. Begun 1914. 



Kansas, Lawrence, — S. J. Hunter. 

 Acridince of Kansas, taxonomic, economic and biologic phases. P. W. Claassen in 



charge. 



Remedial measures against native grasshoppers. S. J. Hunter and P. W. Claassen. 



Kansas, Manhattan, — ^George A. Dean. 

 Habits and life history, control of injurious grasshoppers. George A. Dean. 

 Parasitic and predaceous enemies of grasshoppers. Paul S. Welch. 



