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aluable work under the di 
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ai PEG si Gontn ol. tion of He.Ee Burke.on insects injurious to shade 
. ; » particular attention being paid t 
uring the five and one-half years he has b rey ene ep he sag Spas 
pepared several important publicati sh SNR tek OR Sb aa 
Sol publications on scale insects. Th a 
Mbiology, taxonomy, and econo ; a Paes ese deal with 
) a Docks mye He is taking a position with j 
Minsecticide company located i d with a commercial 
I) Ada Fy Kneale, who has b ihe Sates at ate Meade Bete 
if a ’ as been assisti A yh a , 
nd other Lepidoptera at the Fastern arate area Ae Spee ok ya cn 
Bet Washington Mey 10 for Bould station and the National Museum, 
Be is. Heine: det glad Colos, where she is pursuing similar 
Be ootive ay ey einrich,a Miss Kneale has presented hér resignation as 
BM. octanve I be able to return to Washington in the fall 
4 : investigations. MissKneale was appointed in June, 1918 
| i tae then has done valuable work on the biology of Forest Moki hte 
aa: a, on .the life history and habits of two species» eS ie 
- sr she has worked with Mr» Heinrich on a revision of Evetriidae and 
— many excellent drawings of the genitalias | 
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ie. Le Te De. Ae Cockerell of the University of Colorado spent the last two 
weeks in June -assisting Se Ae Rohwer t : 4 
Be iis was a g » R o arrange the National collection of 
cet ber tab very large task to complete in so short a time, but by 
| a or e entire named collection has been arranged in one series 
1a small part of the unworked material identifieds 
\q os As Ge Boving and Drs Be Us Craighead left Washington on June 25 for 
Harrisburg. Pas, +9 consult With Profs J. G, saydorg, economic eoologist,s and 
ee whe ag larvae in the State Museum. The State of Penn= 
ie is publishing Dr. Craighead's large illustrated paper on cerambycid 
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meeeoeot ty the Moving Picture Laboratory of the Department has completed a 
ee? ow ready for release, on the periodical cicadas It is entitled 
mine most wonderful insect in the world," and. was made under the direction 
of Dre Ts Ee Snyder of this branch. 
On June 25 this branch received a request by wire from the Commandant of 
the Us Ss Naval Aircraft Factory, located at the Navy yard, Philadelphia, Paes 
to inspect insect damage to timber used in constructing Navy aircrafts Dre 
‘Snyder made an inspection of the damaged timber and found that 32 large piles 
.. seasoned ash timber had the sapwood heavily infested with Neoclytus 
erysbrocepnalus Fab, This insect attacks the sapwood of seasoned ash and 
Sother hardwocds, recucing the. wood fiber 49 a powder-like conditions Injury 
in this case was due to the fact that the timber was purchased with the 
bark on, In the future a clause will be inserted in the purchase specifications 
‘excluding all timber with bark ons 
Js He Pollock, of the Colorado: Springs, Coloes field station, states; 
MIn the vicinity of Colorado, Springs, Colo: geedlings and saplings of Pinus 
scopulorun are being sevey ely injured again this season by one of the tip 
moths (Bvetria neomexicana pyar)» At this time injured tips are beginning to 
‘turn yeliow and show 4 congpicuous unhealthy appearances In many cases almost 
‘every young shoot on the small trees is being destroyed by the larvae of 
this insects _ ee 
"Injuries from this species Ww 
‘summer of 1917. Some of the local. peopl 
damaged, cut off the injured tips, thin 
but the following season the depread 
; Mesults obtained “ron recent exp 
tivs without destroying them will nos 
wili transform to pupacy remain in tais co 
emerge as adults the following springs" 

ere first noticed in this locality during the 
6, whose trees were being greatly 
king this would eradicate the pdst,- 
lations were just as extensive as befores 
srinents indicate that removing the infested 
L eliminate the trouble, for the larvee 
ndition through the winter, and 

