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Btudies of larvae other than Laphygma. PHILIP LUGINBILL. 
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A. L. Quaintance, in charge. 
Mr. (ale i Fabis, a graduate student of Columbia Universit New 
city, and formerly @ student at.Cornell University, has bee em 
Mas Scientific Assistant and will assist Mr. John B. Gill in 
an insect investigations, with. headquarters at Monticello, Pla. ‘| 
Mr, Benjamin R. Leach, a student at Cornell University, has been 
ed as Scientific Assistant in deciduous fruit insect investiga- 
and will give special attention to habits, in orchards, of the 
Pppleé aphis and to experiments with remedies in the control of 
Insect. Headquarters will probably be Wiriohest er, Va. 
Arr. John H, Dudley Jr., formerly connected with the Gipsy Moth 
site Laboratory at Melrose Higmliands, Mass., has been appointed 
@entific Assistant in the Bureau of Entomology, and assigned to 
Mnder the Insecticide and Fungicide Board. He will assist Mr. E. 
Bouts in testing the efficacy claims of manufacturers as regards 
© imsecticides, with headquarters at Vienna, Va. 
Mr. W. F. Turner, Entomological Assi stant, formerly assigned 
Work under the Insecticide and Fungicide Board, has been transf 
» Office of Deciduous Fruit Insect Investigations, an@ will a 
Baker in studies of orchard pl ant lice. 
Messrs. W. B. Wood and EB. H. Seigler have been detailed for work 
the spring months in California in connection with the Bureau’s 
ggations and demonstration work in the control of the pear thrips. 
™ L. L. Scott, Hatomological Assistant, who was assisting Mr. A. 
gmmar in codling moth investigations in the Pecos Valley, New 
GO, resigned from the Service February 14, 1914. 
mne studies of the codling moth in tne Alleghany region, which 
2 been under way during th 1S past three TOar a; under the immediate 
e Of Mr. Fred HE. Brooks, have been concluded, and a report upon 
investigation is now practically completed. 
ifs detailed account of the life history and structure of the wooly 
e aphis, wpon which work Mr. A. C. Baker has been engaged for the 
"two years, has been completed and a report submitted for pub- 
tion. 
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The investigations under way during the past two years on the | 
Called terrapin scale, Euiecanium nigrofasciatum, under the immed 1 - 
Beeogirection of Mr. F. L. Simanton, have been concluded and a report 
“shortly be issued. as | 
i FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. | 
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- A. D. Hopkins, in charge. 
In this first letter Dr. Hopkins wishes to make a rather full 
itement of his work for the information of the men engaged in other 
mnches, 
The general projects. in Forest Insect Investigations are: 
1, Office and Laboratory. 
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