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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



[Vol. 8 



nurserymen, farmers and business men generally Governor Rye, through the new 

 cormnissioner of agTiculture, refused to reappomt Prof. Gordon M. Bentley to the 

 important position of state entomologist of Tennessee." 



The office of State Entomologist has recently been estabhshed in Wisconsin, to 

 take over the nursery and orchard inspection and administration of the laws gov- 

 erning insecticides and fungicides. It is to be independent of the University of Wis- 

 consin, with headquarters in the State Capitol at Madison. Professor J. G. Sanders 

 comes from the College of Agriculture to be the first incumbent of the ofl&ce and Dr. 

 S. B. Fracker, an instructor in the same department, has been appointed assistant 

 entomologist. 



The spinach leaf-nuner {Pegomyia vidna Lintn.) has been reported as injuring garden 

 beets during June and July at Green Bay, Wis., by Mr. N. F. Howard, working tem- 

 porarily for the Bureau of Entomology. It has also been reported injuring spinach 

 at Woods Holl, Mass., the correspondent stating that after the spinach was boiled 

 the httle white maggots could be seen on the surface. It may be remembered that 

 those who have tried kerosene emulsion for the insect as it occurs in the mines have 

 obtained no results. 



Some interesting species of insects injurious to stored products have recently been 

 collected. One is the broadheaded flour beetle {Latheticus oryzoe Waterh.), reported 

 by Mr. F. B. MiUiken in two mills at Wichita, Kans. The files of the Bureau of 

 Entomology show that this species was also reported at Wichita FaUs, Tex., in 1909, 

 and at Lyons, Kans., in July, 1908. It is common in Texas, and has only in recent 

 years spread widely to other regions; for example, to Baton Rouge, La., Ehzabeth- 

 town, lU., and Detroit, Mich. 



The semitropical army worm {Prodenia eridania Cram.) has been reported, with 

 accompanying specimens, as being injurious at Hastings, Fla. This army worm 

 appeared in a field of cow^Deas, traveled to a field of sweet potatoes, and crossed a 

 ditch by means of overhanging weeds into another field of cowpeas and corn. It was 

 impossible to spray the cowpeas and corn, but the correspondent stated that he could 

 save the sweet potatoes by other treatment. Several other reports have been made 

 of an insect which is probably this species, though it has not been positively identified. 



Mr. T. E. Snyder, Bm-eau of Entomology, left on October 23 for a ten-day trip 

 to Savannah, Ga., Virginia and Tennessee. At Savannah he inspected treated 

 telephone poles for resistance to insect attack. This work is being done in coopera- 

 tion with the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. In the latter states he 

 inspected the control work against the southern pine beetle by the Forest Service 

 in the White Top Purchase Area and to mark newly infested trees for further control 

 work. 



The fifty-second annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario was held 

 at Ottawa, November 4 and 5 under the presidency of Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, the 

 Government Entomologist. The program was varied and most interestiug, and the 

 meeting was very successful, a goodly number being in attendance. Dr. H. T. 

 Fern aid gave an illustrated lecture on: "Life Zones in Entomology and their Rela- 

 tion to Crops." There were a number of economic papers, one of the more interest- 

 ing dealing with the extraordinary outbreak of Lygus invitus by W. Brittain. A full 

 account of this meeting wiU appear in the annual report of the Society, a publication 

 well and favorably known to American entomologists. 



