June, ’24] 
CURRENT NOTES 
425 
Mr. C. P. Clausen, in charge of the Japanese Beetle parasitic work in the Orient> 
who has been in Washington for a temporary period, sailed from San Francisco 
March 4, for Kobe, Japan, to resume his field operations in connection with parasites 
for the Japanese beetle. 
Dr. E. A. Back of the Bureau of Entomology was subpoened to appear on Febru¬ 
ary 18 and 19 as a witness in the Superior Court of Baltimore in connection with an 
explosion occurring on board a grain boat during August, 1923, following the appli¬ 
cation of carbon disulphide. 
The U. S. National Museum has recently received 79 specimens of Palearctic 
cynipids in exchange with the Zoological Museum, Vienna, Austria. This exchange 
has been arranged through the activities of L. H. Weld and the kindness of Dr. 
Franz Maidl. Most of the material comes from the Mayr collection. 
Dr. F. A. Fenton of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, Ames, has been 
engaged to take charge of the boll weevil laboratory at Florence, S. C., conducted 
by the Bureau of Entomology, in co-operation with the South Carolina Experiment 
Station. Dr. Fenton was to enter upon his duties May 1. 
A collection of 84 species of Orthoptera of western Canada, collected by Mr. E. R. 
Buckell, was recently forwarded to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology by the 
Dominion Entomologist. It is of interest to state that 39 of these species were not 
represented in the British Museum Collection. 
New species of mosquitoes from the United States, especially from the region 
east of the Rocky Mountains, are very rare. The Museum has recently received 
specimens of a new form from Brownsville, Tex. This furnishes the first new species 
east of the Rocky Mountains since the publication of the monograph on Culicidae 
in 1917. 
Mr. B. Preston Clark has recently forwarded to Mr. Schaus 10,000 specimens of 
Lepidoptera from the Philippines; 6,000 of these specimens represent butterflies and 
the remaining are moths. The material is being mounted and prepared for study 
and will ultimately be deposited in the collections of the U. S. National Museum. 
Prof. R. W. Harned of Mississippi, Drs. Wilmon Newell and J. H. Montgomery 
of Florida, Otto Brown of Alabama, W. J. Schoene and T. C. Johnson of Virginia, 
Dr. T. J. Headlee of New Jersey and Dr. Wm. Moore of New York, recently visited 
the Division of Truck Crop Insects of the Bureau of Entomology. 
According to Science, an amendment to the Department of Agriculture appropri¬ 
ation bill has been submitted by Senator Harris of Georgia, to appropriate $100,000.00 
“for the extermination and prevention of the cotton boll weevil, including an investi¬ 
gation of processes of the manufacture of calcium arsenate and other poisons” to be 
used in connection therewith. 
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Huber, who have been stationed at Wooster during the 
winter, left March 22 for Oak Harbor, which will be headquarters for the European 
corn borer laboratory this season. Mr. Huber is now moving the laboratory equip¬ 
ment from Geneva, Ohio, where the laboratory was located last summer, to Oak 
Harbor. 
According to the Official Record, a shipment of European parasites of the alfalfa 
weevil for introduction into the infested area in this country was recently sent to the 
Salt Lake City laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology from the European Corn 
