
Zz EI Paso - J. G. Hemlin and W. W. Maxwell, Jr. 
Eagle Pass - J. A. Dew and &. G. Harris. 
Laredo - 0. D. Deputy an 
Brownsville - A. G. Mas 
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mts ccver the principal ports of 
entry. The sunervision of the minor parts of entry are divided 
among the ports named, and the work is accomplished in coopera- 
tion with the customs service and with such sccasional visits 
from the inspectors of the Board as the requirements may neces- 
sitate. 
An estimate has been prepared for the Umwent 
Meficiency Bill of this session, callirge for an appropriation 
Of $000,000 to still further safeguard the United States from 
tie pink boliworm. A-conference was keld on July 17 on this 
Work, participated in by representatives appointed by the Gov- 
ermor of Texas, namely, the Commissioner of #riculture and 
Messrs. Ayers and Scholl, and by Mr. Paddock, representirg the 
Gmperiment station, and Mr. Ousley, temporarily actireg as Assist- 
ant to the Secretary of 4gricuiture, representirg the State at 
Jame and particularly the State Extension Service. There was 
also a committee of planters, representirmg the Lower Rio Grande 
Valley, present. THe work-froncsed under the appropriation re- 
guested is the establisnmment of a cotton-free zone in Texas 
alore the Mexican border, the survey and stampirg out of local 
points of infestation in Mexico neur the Texas border, and gen- 
@ral surveys of the infested district in the Laguna and elise- 
Where in Mexico to be the basis of determinire the advisability 
Of undertakirg exterminative work a@ainst the pink bollworm in 
Mexico generally. 
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A. —*s Hopkins, ss Lomo. -_ oS =—ss Char S . 
Dr. Hopkins spent the first week of the month in 
the Washireton office and returned to his work at Kanawha Station, 
West Virginia. 
Jacob Kotinsky spent June 27 in Philadelphia where, 
With the assistance of F: M. Trimble of the Pennsylvania State 
Zoolcical Service and the Federal Horticultural Hoard, elm-leaf 
beetle (Calerucella lutecla Mull.) eggs were located and a colony 
Of parasites received by Dr. Howard from M. F. Picard of th 
Ecole Nationale d'Ariculture, Montpelier, France, was released. 
Small colonies of this parasite were also released in Ithaca, 
New York by Prof. Robt. Matheson and by Mr. Kotinsky in Washirg ton, 
D. Ce No prediction as to results can be made as yet. 
William Middleton is ve 
cal material of horntails (Siricoide ecia lly ae ermined 
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larvae or larvae with a sufficient quanti 
rearirg. In makire notes please give host, locality, date of col- 
lection, relative abundance, etc. Collections of adults with data 
Will be valuable additions to the collection. The iar ae of the 
horntails are all wood borers livireé in dead or dyiré coniferous 
or deciduous trees. The species of the genera Tremex and Xiphydria 
