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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



An outbreak of unusual severity of the onion thrips was reported to the Bureau of 

 Entomolog3^ in Marshall County, Indiana, and vicinity, during July. The locahties 

 from which these reports emanated included Donaldson, Grovetown, Hamlet, 

 Walkerton, and Plj^mouth, and our correspondents stated that the thrips serioush^ 

 threatened the onion crop over a very considerable acreage. 



Dr. A. H. ]\IcCray, Bureau of Entomolog}^, is now stationed at the Drummond 

 laborator5\ He is continuing the work of examining samples of diseased brood sent 

 in for determination, and is also taking up some new lines of investigation of bee 

 diseases. Dr. McCray received the degree of doctor of medicine from George Wash- 

 ington University in June. 



Prof. T\Hmon Xewell has resigned his position as state entomologist of Texas 

 and professor of entomology at the Texas A. & M. College, to accept the position 

 of state plant commissioner of Florida. As commissioner he will have charge of the 

 work of citrus canker eradication and general supervision of the state work in ento- 

 mologj^, plant pathology and nursery inspection, with headquarters at Gainesville. 



The Colorado potato beetle, as has previously been announced, has been chscov- 

 ered at work on the Pacific Coast in the state of Washington. It has also been 

 known to occur in Idaho for some time and it is invading new territory in Arizona 

 and probably New Mexico. Agents and correspondents are urgently requested to 

 report the occurrence of this species in any suspected new locahty. 



Mr. P. I. Smith, formerh' of the Xorth Carolina Experiment Station, but recently 

 located in Porto Pico, has been appointed a quarantine inspector by the Federal 

 Horticultural Board. He assumed his duties on August 16 and is stationed at Boston 

 to have supervision over the imports of foreign cotton, and the erection of the fumi- 

 gating plant which will probabl}' be established at that place by the 1st of Januar}^ 



Prof. Lawrence Bruner, state entomologist of Nebraska, professor and head of the 

 Department of Entomology in the University of Nebraska, was selected by a com- 

 mittee, as Nebraska's most distinguished citizen, to attend the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition as guest of honor on August 19. At a luncheon given in his honor Pro- 

 fessor Bruner was the recipient of a medal, presented by the exposition, bearing the 

 inscription, "Professor Lawrence Bruner, Distinguished Citizen of Nebraska." 



Aphides and flea-beetles have been very destructive in the vicinity of the District 

 of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, but owing to adverse weather conditions, 

 especially droughts followed by rain storms, experiments employed to test remedies 

 have been unsatisfactory. Aphides of many species apparently entirely disappeared 

 toward the end of Jul}- but some have reappeared in shght numbers. Ladybirds 

 have been extremely active as checks; so much so that there appears to be no food 

 left for them. 



Although the Lyctus powder-post beetles, and especially their work, are well known, 

 their biology, and particularly their method and place of oviposition, have remained 

 obscure. During the past month Mr. T. E. Snyder, Bureau of Entomology, has 

 concentrated his efforts on securing this information. After considerable painstaking 

 work his efforts were crowned with success. He observed the beetles in the act of 

 oviposition and located the eggs, which he found of unusual type for Coleoptera. He 

 is now working out a full seasonal history of the insect. 



In the Bureau of Entomology Dr. Hopkins' long official title of ''entomological 

 assistant in charge of forest insect investigations" has been changed to the more 

 appropriate title of ''forest entomologist. " Likewise the titles of H. E. Burke, J. ]\U 



