rae 
W. B, Turner, formerly engaged as Scientific Assistant on the wireworm and” 
cutworm investigations at Hagerstown, Md,, has been transferred to the Kurope=) 
an corn borer investigations and is now located at 10 Court St., Arlington, : 
Mass., where he will be under the direction of Donald J, Caffrey,. 
Wesley L, Miles, Ph. 5., a graduate of Syracuse University, has been engags 
ed as special field agent on the European corn borer yroject and assigned *@ 
the work under D, J. Caffrey, 
A cooperative investigation of the wireworms attacking cereal crops has peal 
arranged between the Bureau of Entomology and the Washington State Agricultural 
Experiment Station, - This branch of the Bureau has agreed to furnish a man who 
will be stationed in central Washington during the growing season of the year, 
to conduct the Bureau's portion of this cooperative work. F, R, Cole of the 
Forest Grove, Ore,, station has been assigned to this project for the present, 


TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
C, L. Marlatt, Entomologist in Charge 
-Forerunners of the big brood of the periodical cicada of this year are al- 
ready making their appearance, On the grounds of the Chevy Chase Glub where only 
a few scattered trees remain in places, :numerous exit holes were in evidence a 
April 24, and a single full-grown pupa was found on the surface, possibly killed™ 
by the low temperatures of that period, The prediction .in the March News Letter 
of possible earlier emergence this year may not be. realized, for after all the 
subterranean temperatures do Lot vary ouflietently even in a warm winter to make 
a large element of difference, The Bureau will be glad to receive any spemguas 
of first appearances throughout the range of the brood, 

FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
GC. L, Marlatt, Chairman 
The Texas pink bollworm act of 1919 provides in section 15 for the estab- 
lishment of a commission of five entomologists to determine the necessity for 
the establishment of quarantine areas within the State of Texas. -The members of 
the commission as now created under the terms of the act are: Ernest E, Scholl, 
designated by the Commissioner of Agriculture; W, D, Hunter, designated by the 
Federal Horticultural Board, U. S. Department of Agriculture; F. B. Paddock, — 
designated by the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; N, Hess, appoint- 
ed by the Governor of Texas; and an entomologist to be appointed by the county 
judge of the county in which the fields believed to be infested are located, On 
the recommendation .of tuis commission the nécessary quarantine action has been 
taken tv the Governor under the new law with respect to the several districts in 
Texas which have at any time been infested by the pink bollworm, and also with 
Spect to the border noncotton zones, 
Entomological and pathological inspections of the various plant introduction 
gardens of this Department are regularly made by the inspectors of the Federal 
Horticultural Board, Such inspection was made of the introduction gardens at 
Chico, Calif., in December, 1918, by CG, ©. Thomas and H, L, Sanford; at Brooks-= 
ville and Miami, Fla,, in Pabelary: 1919, by C, H, Kauffman and A. C. Mason; 
