December, '15] 



CURRENT NOTES 



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Mr. F. A. Fenton, a graduate student of the University of Wisconsin, and for a 

 time deputy nursery inspector in the same state, has joined the Federal Bureau of 

 Entomology and will be engaged in work with Mr. J. J. Davis at Lafayette, Ind. 



Mr. Henry L. Viereck is no longer connected with the California State Commission 

 of Horticulture, where he has recently been assistant superintendent of the insectary 

 at Capitol Park, Sacramento. 



Mr. August Busck, Bureau of Entomology, has returned to Washington from the 

 Hawaiian Islands where he carried on an investigation of Gelechia gossypiella for 

 the Federal Horticultural Board. 



Mr. Eric Cogan, Bureau of Entomology, temporarily employed at the Charleston 

 (Mo.) field laboratory, has resumed his studies at Ohio State University. Mr. 

 Cogan is speciahzing in Jassidea. 



Miss Myrtle Duckett has been appointed a student assistant in the Bureau of 

 Entomology to assist in recording the results of the wintering experiments in apicul- 

 ture. 



Mr. R. J. Kewley, Bureau of Entomology, recently attached to the staff at the 

 La Fayette (Ind.) station, has been detailed to assist Mr. A. B. Gahan at College 

 Park, Md. 



Mr. E. W. Scott, Bureau of Entomology, employed in connection with the enforce- 

 ment of the Insecticide Act, made a trip of investigation through Georgia and Florida 

 during late October. 



Dr. A. D. Hopkins returned to his office on October 27 from Kanawha Station, 

 W. Va., where he was on leave and continued his observations on phenological 

 phenomena, forest and wood-boring insects. 



Mr. E. J. Newcomer, Bureau of Entomology, will spend the winter months at 

 his permanent field quarters, Wenatchee, Wash., and will give attention to questions 

 connected with the winter Ufe of certain orchard pests. 



Mr. John B. Gill, Bureau of Entomology, engaged in pecan insect investigations, 

 has returned to his field headquarters, Monticello, Fla., from an extended trip 

 through the Gulf States in connection with the study of pecan insects. 



Mr. H. H. Kimball, Bureau of Entomology, who has been associated with D. L. 

 Van Dine at Mound, La., will transfer his work to New Orleans where he will assist 

 Dr. W. V. King in rearing Anopheles mosquitoes. 



The Siamese grain beetle {Lophocateres pusillus Klug) has been reported by Prof. 

 E. S. Tucker, at Baton Rouge, La., injuring rice. This species is not common in 

 this country, but has been found in Texas, South Carohna, and received from foreign 

 countries. 



Mr. E. J. Branigan, field deputy of the Cahfornia State Commission of Horticul- 

 ture, is temporarily located at the Pasadena Station, Bureau of Entomology, dis- 

 tributing Leptomastix sp., a parasite of the citrus mealy bug {Pseudococcus citri). 

 This parasite was recently introduced from Sicily. 



Professor H. A. Ballou, Entomologist on the staff of the British Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, for several years stationed at Barbados, West Indies, is studying 

 during his vacation at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, from which he grad- 

 uated in 1895. 



Mr. Alfred B. Champlain, assistant forest entomologist of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, is now at Lyme, Conn., where he is making observations on the hickory 

 bark beetle and other borers, and at the same time is receiving medical treatment for 

 an ailment of the stomach. 

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