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W. D. Hunter, In Charge 
. Barber delivered a Bnber of addresses on the boll weevil 
ah “saan the month. sy work was a 8 oes of the plan of the 
‘August Buseck returned to Washington from the Hawaiian Islands 
a carried on an "oh elie piaaue of Gelechia goasypiella for the 
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TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
C. L. Marlatt, In Charge. 
' Dr. HE. A. Back, in field charge of the Mediterranean fruit fly 
estigations in Hawaii, has returned to Honolulu, 
ae Mr. David L. Crawford, formerly entomologist and hortioubtaried 
the Mexico Gulf Coast Citrus Association, Tampico, Mexico, has 
itted for publication in the Aa eek of agriculture @ manu- 
e Pe. ae Horton, in field charge of the citrus fruit insect in- 
restigations in Louisiana, recently submitted an account of the hurri- 
e which passed through southern Louisiana on September 29. ¢He re- 
ts that in an experimental orchard at Venice, fully 95 per cent of 
' oranges were blown off the trées, many of: them being carried ten 
Considerable distance. Orange trees were literally whipped to pieces, 
@nd the foliage discolored, as though scorched by fire. Practically 
411 of the ant traps and fumigation covers at Happy Jack were destroyed 
y lights were broken out of the laboratory windows. in New Orleans, 
and oné chimney was blown down. A large percentage of the cages used 
