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_ Mr. C. N. Ainslie reports serious ravages to corn in South 
Dakota by attacks of Diabrotica longicornis, while Geo. G. Ainslie 
ids the pest attacking corn on bottom lands as far south as Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. 
Mr. Harrison BE. Smith has returned to Wellington, Kans., from his 
trip tc New Mexico where he was sent to study an outbreak of 
Dissosteira longipennis, and has since been working, in cooperation 
with Prof. Dean of the Agricultural College, in suppressing outbreaks 
ing other species in Kansas. 
Mr. N. Kourdumoff, Poltava, Russia, with whom a number of the 
staff are presumably acgu iainted, has had the kindness to compare the 
alfalfa weevil parasites, shown in figures 19 and 20, page 37, Bulletin 
‘lle, with type specimens and thus has been able to determine them for 
us as female and male of Dibrachoides dynastes Foerster. Further, 
par. Girault has also described the species figured in the same Bull- 
"etin, p. 34, fig. 15, as Anaphoides luna. Members of the staff can, 
therefore, correct their copies of this Bulletin accordingly. 
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mrot. F. Silvestri, R. Scuola Superiore di Agricoltura, Portirci, 
Italy, Seaentiy paid Washingt on a hurried call on his way home to Italy 
Via San Francisco. As illustrating the status of applied entomology 
Namong the civilized nations of the world, Prof. Silvestri was carrying 
with him hundreds of adult hymenopterous parasites belonging largely 
to the subfamily Opiinrne. These were kept in vials and were fed with 
“honey thinned with water. One species which he had obtained was para-~ 
“Sitic upon the house fly. American entomologists will be intensely 
‘interest.d in learning what Prof. Silvestri has been able to do with 
these tiny insects, transported by himself from West Africa to Itaiy 
by this unusual method and by such a circuitous route. 
Through the instrumentality of Mr. Burgess of the Gipsy Moth 
work, a number of Calosoma sycophanta of both sexes were sent to 
moehier, N..Mex., in June, as a tasis for an experiment with the 
"Bpecies as against the range caterpillar. Under date of July 10, Mr. 
Wildermuth states that adults feed on Hemileuca larvae quite savagely, 
a single pair eating as high as forty fourth-instar Hemileuca larvae 
ain @ single day. Also, adults of two other species, C. calidum and 
2, frigiaum, attack Hemileuca larvae. There still seems to be a ques- 
tion, however, whether cr not the larvae of C. frigidum and C. syco- 
phanta will readily attack the Hemileuca larvae. . Still later, Mr. 
Summers, carrying out instructions from Mr. Burgess, shipped to 
Koehler about 200 puparia of Compsilura concinnatea, a tachinid para-. 
site to be used in experiments to determine if this species will suc- 
cessfully parasitize Hemiieuca caterpillars. 
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