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JOURNAL OF ECONO^IIC EXTOMOLOGY 



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Mr. A. B. Duckett, scientific assistant, Bui-eau of Entomolog}', has just retui-ned 

 from a trip in New Jersey, where he has been investigating insects injmious to 

 strawberries. 



Mr. F. R. Cole, scientific assistant, Bui-eau of Entomology, a graduate of Pomona 

 College, Cal., formerly located at Pasadena, CaL, has been transferred to Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. C. P. Gillette, dii^ector, Agiicultm-al Exi^eriment Station, Fort CoUins, Colo., 

 whose name is widely known as a spaciaUst on aphides, leafhoppers, and related 

 groups, has been appointed collaborator of the Bm-eau of Entomology. 



Mr. G. E. Bensel, for several j^ears interested in practical entomology, has been 

 appointed as collaborator of the Bm-eau of Entomology", engaged in sugar-beet 

 insect uivestigations, with headquarters at Oxnard, Cal. 



Mr. T. D. Urbahns, of the Pasadena field laboratory, Biu-eau of Entomology', is 

 looking after serious outbreaks of grasshoppers in the San Joaquin and Sacramento 

 VaUeys, Cal. 



The present spring has witnessed an unusual outbreak of Galerucella cavicolUsf 

 which has been many times reported from Pennsylvania. Xew York, West Vnginia> 

 Michigan, and elsewhere, and has been especially injm-ious to cherrj' as well as peach- 



J\Ir. John B. Gill of the ]\Ionticello, Fla., laboratory, Bm-eau of Entomology, has 

 just completed a torn- of investigation of pecan insects, visiting points in ^Mississippi 

 and Louisiana. 



Mr. A. B. Champlain, Bm-eau of Entomology, has been transferred from the 

 field station at Colorado Springs, Colo., to the station at East Falls Chm-ch, Va., 

 where he will continue his studies of beneficial forest Coleoptera. 



Mr. Carl Heim-ich, Bureau of Entomology, has just retm-ned from a two weeks' 

 torn- in New York and Pennsylvania of investigations of the Em-opean pine-shoot 

 moth {Evetria huoliana) and an outbreak of cankerworms. 



Mr. Dwight Iselj, Bureau of Entomology^, who spent the whiter months m Wash- 

 ington for the pm'pose of makhig bibliographical records on grape insects, has returned 

 to his field station at North East, Pa., to resume his duties in comiection with grape- 

 insect investigations. 



Mr. F. B. Milliken and Mi. F. yi. Wadley, of the Bureau of Entomology, have 

 found it advisable to remove then headquarters, formerly at Garden City, Kan., 

 and will estabhsh new quarters at Wichita, Kan., where more attention can be given 

 to insects mjmious to stored grains, cereals, and other stored products. 



The beekeepers of Iowa, IlUnois and ]\Iissoim will join in holdmg a field meeting, 

 Tuesday, September 7, at the Dadant apiaries, Hamilton, 111. An inspectors' con- 

 ference wiU be held the following day, across the river at Keokuk, Iowa, and ]Mr. 

 Frank C. Pellett, state apiarist of Iowa, will have charge of the program. 



Mr, George G. AinsHe, Bm-eau of Entomology, is investigating various species 

 of Crambidae, which seem to be doing a great deal of damage in the cornfields the 

 present year, making a trip through the states of iMissomi, Kansas, Nebraska, South 

 Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. 



Dr. Hemy Fox and Mr. W. T. Emery- of the Bm-eau of Entomology, are awa}* 

 from their field stations at CharlottesydUe, Ya., investigatmg outbreaks of the south- 

 ern corn rootworm (Diahrotica 12-putictata) and the sugar-cane beetle (Ligyrus 

 rugiceps) in southern Yirgiaia. 



