FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. D. Hopkins, In Charge. 























A, 
ar Hopkins and peers Kotinsky attended the entomological meetings of the Ento- 
ical Society of America and American Association of Economic Entomology held in 
rk City during convocation week. Dr. Hopkins participated in the discussion 
; presidential address before the American Association of Economic Entomology 
in Prof. Dean's paper on the Hessian fly. 
ge ring convocation week Dr. Hopkins read a paper before the American Ecological 
ae, “Latitude, Longitude and Altitude as Factors of Climate Affecting 
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+e in M. Miller, in charge of the Pacific Slope Station at Ashland, Oregon, is 
Mashington, D. C., for conference. 
SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. D. Hunter, In Charge. 
yt. C. Barber has been transferred to the Horticultural Board, effective on 
ary 1. He will take charge of the field work involved in the threatened in- 
Gtion of the pink boll worm in the United States. He will establish an office 
n Antonio, Texas, and will have several assistants for inspection work at 
r ports and for the examination of cotton fields in the vicinity of Texas miils 
received cotton seed from Mexico during the summer of 1916. 
_ R. Barber has taken charge of the work on parasites of the cottony cushion 
in New Orleans. This work is supported by a fund to which contributions were 
ats the City of New Orleans, the Louisiana Experiment Station, and the Louisiana 
rtment of Agriculture. The city has had a greenhouse erected in the grounds at 
es bon Park where an effort is being made to produce large numbers of the Vedalia 
wiles for liberation in the infested portions of the city. 
i © The following men were in Washington at various times during the Soh nd have 
gain to their several stations: T. C. Barber, A. 0. Morgan, Henry Fox, 
pattin, q. E. Rove, F, L. McDonough and F. C, Bishopp. 
TRUCK CROP AND STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Neale F, Howard, specialist in insects as carriers of plant diseases, has spent 
@ month in Washington, D. C., in conference, and will return to his headquarters 
ison, Wis., after attending a second conference at Pittsburgh, Pa., with the ento- 
gists, Pathologists, and others interested in the topic of insects as carriers 
pease and other plant diseases, 
C. H. Popenoe, entomological assistant, will visit Pittsburgh for the same pur- 
e at the end of the month. 
od. 2. Graf, who has been absent. from the Bureau of Entomology for a year, has 
ace reappointed and will be in charge of a station at Plant City, Fla., where he 
tf work: on both truck crop and stored product insect investigations. 
_ The pink cornworm (Batrachedra rileyi Wals. ) has been discovered in injuri- 
au bers in corn in several localities in Mississippi, and in less numbers in 
alana and adjacent States. 
