CURRENT NOTES 
511 
August, ’24] 
conduct of the sweet-potato weevil eradication work in Alabama in co-operation 
with the above board. 
Dr. Paul S. Welch was elected Editor of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts 
and Letters at the twenty-ninth annual meeting held at Ann Arbor, April 2-4, 1924. 
Dr. Welch presented a paper on “Observations on the Early Larval Activities of 
Nymphula macularis (Lepidoptera)” and jointly with L. P. Wehrle, “A New Form 
of Acarinid Parasitism in Orthoptera.” 
According to the Official Record , a very large shipment of parasites of the Japanese 
Beetle has just been brought into this country on its way to the laboratory at River¬ 
ton, N. J. It weighed about 8,000 pounds, entered through the port of Seattle, and 
was shipped overland by parcel post to insure prompt movement at the lowest 
possible rate. 
Dr. J. M. Aldrich left on May 31 for a two months’ trip through the West. He 
will visit Kansas City and Atherton, Mo., San Francisco, Berkeley and Redlands, 
Calif., Portland, Ore., Pullman and Seattle, Wash., and other points, where he expects 
to do some collecting and consult with various specialists. He will also spend several 
weeks visiting relatives and friends. 
Mr. J. E. Dudley, Bureau of Entomology, of Madison, Wis.,. has opened a branch 
laboratory for the summer at Columbus, Wis., where extensive tests will be conducted 
on the control of the pea aphis with various insecticides and the aphidozer which he 
designed last year. Any observations of particular interest on the pea aphis should 
be sent to Mr. Dudley, at Columbus. 
Mr. S. A. Rohwer left Washington on May 28 for the purpose of investigating 
the practicability of introducing parasites into the forestry plantation at Halsey, 
Nebr., as a check on the ravages of the pine tip moth, Evetria bushnelli. This moth is 
causing severe damage to the oines on the reforestation project there. Mr. Rohwer 
will be absent for a month, or possibly more. 
Mr. J. C. Hamlin, formerly employed by the Federal Horticultural Board, and 
more recently in charge of the entomological work for the Commonwealth Prickly 
Pear Board of Australia, was reinstated in the Bureau of Entomology on May 2, 
and assigned to duty at the Boll Weevil Laboratory at Tallulah, La. Mr. Hamlin is 
to give attention to the chemotropic responses of the boll weevil. 
On May 14 and 15, Messrs. Plank, Whitcomb and Catchings of the Bureau of 
Entomology, with Ed. Foster, Collaborator of the Federal Horticultural Board, 
judged an exhibit of insects at New Orleans, in which two New Orleans Normal 
School classes and seven New Orleans grade schools competed for local prizes. These 
exhibits are held twice a year and a great deal of interest is shown in them by all the 
students. 
Mr. Eric Watson, of Westacres, Pont Tail Road, England, appointed to the staff 
of the Entomological Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, as an Assistant 
Entomologist, reported for duty on April 14. Mr. Watson was born in Edinburgh, 
Scotland, and is a graduate of the Imperial College, London, England. He is making 
a systematic study of sawflies and will be glad to identify any material the field officers 
may care to send in. 
Professor Harold R. Hagan, Salt Lake City, Utah, was elected First Vice President 
of the Utah Academy of Sciences at the seventeenth annual meeting held April 4-5, 
