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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
Poe Le Quaintance , Entomologist in Charge. 
Deg As sles Guatntanes has just returned eerie an extended trip to Cali- 
fornia, where he visited several field stations :and atverided conterences at 
Sacramento and Fresno to discuss insect control Bese ae te One Pedi sest to the 
aN industry of that State. pee 

E.R, Van Leeuwen, in charge. of the Boreas, s Lahore totey yy companies Ga., 
has heen temporarily transferred to Ft. Valley, Ga., wnere.he-will assist in 
connection with clean-up work against: the plum Spades ta 1% wea Bt) 
W. OD. Whitcomb, wat has been assisting . Am ch Raneren with ‘Sone insect 
investigations, with headquarters at Yakima, Wash.,: has heen temporarily tran 
sferred to Ft. Valley, Ga,, where he will also assist -in ;the eee pct 
against the plum: curculio, 
STORED PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
‘g, A, Back, ntomologist in Charge. 
During ran ed and Posters Dr. Ee Ne Back made several trips to 
Gloversville, N. {ih}: to investigate outbreaks of Dermestes vulpinus in 
hide warehouses. This insect is causing much damage to hides and skins 
wherever they are stored and at the present hightprice of leather the los- 
ses are said by leather concerns to mount into the millions of dollars. 
Both fumigated “arid unfumigated hides are now going throvgh the tanning rro- 
cess to determine what effect, if any, fumigation may Have upon tnem, While 
previous observations indicate that no injury: can be detected in the finish- 
ed product, several firms have refused to emplyy fumigation in protecting 
rooms containing many millions of dollars worth of hides and skins, because 
as Departnuent did not have on file Be Se ahaphagsseigte regarding the 
ffect ‘upen hides of: pee ae | az : 
F J. A. Hyslop has been corre cee the page proof of his paper entitled 
Genotypes of the Elaterid Beetles of the Wor id, " to appear in: Volume 58 of 
the Proceedings of the National Museum, ; . i no 
J.C, Bridwell has been at work during the past few months woon the 
Bruchidas. The éntire collection of Bruchidae in the National Museum has 
been rearranged in trays and’ alli naterial sorted: roughly acesrding to spe- 
cies and tentatively distributed into natural: groups, Because of the over- 
crowding of work on E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber, the Museum collection of 
Bruchidae has not been arranged. since the days of Martin L. Linell. Eighty 
species ‘from. the United States were found represented out of: the ninety-two — 
species described. Arizond'and Texas species-are well represented on ac- 
count of the work done in Texas in connection with boll weevil parasite in- 
vestigations, and in Arizona by the work of Hubbard and Schwarz and by Schwarz 
and Barber. The collection, however, is weak in material showing the range 
of distribution of the species. The rich Neotropical fauna from Centnal Amer- 
