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with headquarters in New York City. Mr. Hill is a graduate of the Missouri Agri - 
cultural College and has taken graduate work at the Iowa State College of Agri¬ 
culture. 
Mr. Randolph W. Nicaise has been appointed Plant Quarantine Inspector in the 
Federal Horticultural Board with headquarters at New York. Mr. Nicaise was 
formerly employed by the Bureau of Entomology in Boll Weevil work and later by 
the Federal Horticultural Board in the Pink Boll Worm Eradication work. 
A Scolytid beetle, Coccotypes sp., has been taken recently in several lots of palm 
seeds received at Washington for inspection, which were destined for points in the 
South. The beetle works as a stored product pest, entering the seeds from the out¬ 
side and breeding and feeding within the kernel. 
Mr. J. T. Rogers, in charge of the inspection work at Charleston, S. C., recently 
intercepted the Turnip Gall Weevil, Ceutorhynchus pleurostigma Marsh, in turnip 
roots from Newcastle, England. This insect is treated in a paper published by 
P. B. Isaac in the “Annals of Applied Biology,” Vol. 10,1923, page 170. 
Mr. Thomas A. Arnold, Plant Quarantine Inspector at El Paso, in making an 
examination of the bedding carried by a Mexican coming across the Border into 
Texas, found the larva of an insect crawling on the outside of the roll. The larva 
was determined by Mr. Heinrich of the Bureau of Entomology as the Pink Boll 
Worm. 
Dr. William Mann of the Bureau of Entomology left Washington the latter part of 
January en route to Colombia. South America, in the interest of the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board. He will make an investigation of the insects liable to be imported into 
the United States, which attack fruits and vegetables, paying particular attention 
to the fruit flies. From Colombia, he will proceed northward, passing through 
Panama and into the Central American States. 
A package of cotton from Hawaii addressed to a firm at Calexico, Calif., was 
turned over to Mr. O. A. Pratt, Plant Quarantine Inspector at that point, immedi¬ 
ately upon its receipt by the firm. Mr. Pratt writes that while the seed showed 
abundant evidence of insect injury, he was able to find only one live larva, which he 
cyanided and sent to Washington. The insect was determined by Mr. Heinrich as 
the Pink Boll Worm. 
Apicultural Notes 
The California State Beekeeper’s Association held its 33rd annual meeting during 
holiday week at Sacramento. 
The short course on beekeeping at the Agricultural College, Fargo, N. D., was 
given in February. From 15 to 25 attended. 
Mr. J. I. Hambleton, Bureau of Entomology, was one of the speakers at the meeting 
of the Pennsylvania State Beekeeper’s Association at Harrisburg, Pa., January 24 
and 25. 
Dr. E. F. Phillips will represent the Apiculture Section of the Association of 
