August. '15] 



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Mr. C. X. Ainslie, of the Elk Point (S. D.) station, Bureau of Entomology, is on 

 an extended trip through Nebraska and Iowa investigating the peculiar Hessian 

 fly conditions that exist in those locahties, cooperating in Iowa with R. L. Webster, 

 entomologist in charge at the Iowa Experiment Station. 



Mr. Fred E. Brooks, Bureau of Entomology, has recently returned to his head- 

 quarters at French Creek, W. Va., from an extended trip thi'ough the South in con- 

 nection with studies of the distribution and destructiveness of various species of 

 apple-tree borers, especially Saperda Candida. 



Messrs. R. L. Xougaret and W. ]M. Davidson, of the Walnut Creek laboratory, 

 Bureau of Entomology', in Cahfornia, will be in attendance at the International Con- 

 gress of Viticulture, convening in San Francisco in connection with the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition, and wiU present a paper on the grape Phylloxera in California. 



With the cooperation of Mr. A. F. Burgess, in charge of moth woiiv. an effort is 

 being made to introduce Calosoma sycojphanta into certain apple-growing regions in 

 the West. It wiU also be introduced in orchard-gi'owing locahties in the Alleghany 

 Mountain region. 



An interesting and important addition to the knowledge of the hfe-history of the 

 brown grape aphid, Macrosiphum viticola, was reported in Science, Vol. 41, n.s., No. 

 1066. by Messrs. A. C. Baker and W. F. Turner, Bureau of Entomology. Yihurnum 

 prunifoUum was found to be an alternate food plant on which the insect winters. 



Dr. A. D. Hopkins, Bureau of Entomology, has spent about ten days at Kanawha 

 Station, W. Va., in connection with experimental work on insects affecting rustic 

 work, a continuation of hfe-history studies on trap trees and general field work on 

 forest insects. 



Mr. G. A. Runner, Bureau of Entomology, has closed his laboratory at Richmond, 

 Va., and wiU hereafter be stationed at ClarksviUe, Tenn. He made a short trip to 

 Schenectady, N. Y., in connection with the tests of X-ray control of the cigarette 

 beetle. 



Mr. H. L. Sanford, inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board, recently detected 

 a severe infestation of Targionia harti (Ckll.) on yams from the Philippine Islands. 

 This scale insect has also been previously taken on tubers received from the West 

 Indies. 



Mr. R. A. Cushman, Bureau of Entomology', who spent the winter months in the 

 Xational ]Musemn, in systematic work on parasites of deciduous fruit insects, has 

 returned to his headquarters at Xorth East, Pa., to resume his investigations in con- 

 nection with parasites of the grape berry moth and other parasites of deciduous fruit 

 insects. 



Mr. V. L. Wildermuth, Bureau of Entomology, is on a trip of investigation thi^ough- 

 out northern Arizona, making ob.servations on the distribution and work of Choetocnema 

 ectypa and Languria mozardi, the former being quite destructive to corn and other 

 crops, while the latter has been found much more destructive to aKalfa than in the 

 eastern portion of the countrJ^ Other insects will also claim his attention. 



Mr. H. B. ScammeU, Bureau of Entomology, engaged in cranberry insect investi- 

 gations with headquarters at Pemberton, X. J., reports imusual abimdance and 

 injury from the so-caUed cranberry tipworm, Dasyneura vaccinii, in cranberry bogs 

 in that state. Careful biological studies are in progress, as well as experiments mth 

 remedies. 

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