February, ’24] 
CURRENT NOTES 
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Messrs. W. R. Walton and L. H. Worthley of the Bureau of Entomology visited 
Brooklyn, N. Y., November 23 to inspect an area near Fort Hamilton which recently 
has become infested with the European corn borer. 
The Cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor has recently been awarded by the 
French Government to Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, in 
recognition of his services to world agriculture. 
Messrs. L. L. Huber and C. R. Neiswander of the Ohio Station visited Arlington, 
Mass., October 11,12 and 13, studying the methods pursued at the Federal European 
Corn Borer Laboratory, especially the breeding of parasites. 
The final scenes for a new motion picture film on the corn borer adapted to middle 
western conditions were taken in Ohio during the week of November 26. This film 
is prepared by the Bureau of Entomology. 
Mr. A. E. Miller has gone to Washington for six or eight weeks to study the collec¬ 
tion of mites he has gathered in Ohio. Dr. H. E. Ewing of the Lfnited States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture will assist in this study. 
The Bureau of Entomology’s storehouse and motor base for the corn borer quaran¬ 
tine control work in the Middle West has been transferred from Toledo, Ohio, to the 
corner of Clark and Kipling Streets, Elyria, Ohio. Mr. C. E. Towle will be in charge. 
Dr. E. D. Ball, Director of scientific work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
attended the sessions of the Association of Land Grant Colleges at Chicago, and on 
November 14, was one of the speakers at a luncheon of the Chicago Department 
Club, at the Great Northern Hotel. 
Mr. S. W. Frost of Arendtsville, Pa., spent a week in Washington recently working 
with Dr. Boving on leaf-mining coleopterous larvae. Mr. Frost has made a specialty 
of the study of leaf-miners, and hopes to have an opportunity to study the preserved 
material and slides in the National Collection. 
Mr. A. E. Miller of the Ohio Station who spent the summer of 1919 in Alaska with 
an exploring party of naturalists, gave a lecture on the “Valley of Ten Thousand 
Smokes” before the Kiwanis Club of Wooster, November 20, Lion’s Club of Akron, 
November 27, and Kiwanis Club of Medina, November 30. 
Mr. C. C. Hamilton of the University of Maryland, who recently completed an 
arrangement of the collection of the immature stages of Cicindela, is continuing his 
work on the immature stages of the larvae of the beetle family Carabidae. He is 
spending one day a week in the Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum. 
Mr. A. E. Miller of the Ohio Station scouted Jackson, Gallia, Ross, and Pike Coun¬ 
ties, Ohio, and found evidence of the work of the Mexican Bean Beetle in all of them. 
The pest will probably cause considerable damage to string beans in these counties 
next summer and the damage is expected to be severe the following summer. 
Mr. J. D. Hood, Instructor in the University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., has 
recently removed his magnificent collection of Thysanoptera to Rochester and is 
now giving considerable time to the study of his favorite group of insects. The 
collection is exceptionally rich in types and contains material from all parts of the 
world, many species being represented by considerable series. 
Dr. E. O. Essig of the California Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, 
Calif., visited the Division of Insects, U. S. National Museum, for a few hours Novem¬ 
ber 27. Dr. Essig is especially interested in methods of arranging collections, types 
