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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 




































F. M. Webster, In Charge. 
‘ing the early part of September several complaints have been re- 
“py the Bureau from the alfalfa-growing districts of southern Vir- 
a regarding the serious injury to alfalfa by the Membracid, Stictoce-— 
festina Say. Specimens of both the work and the insect were re- 
Dirom R. P. Cocke of the county experiment station at Williamsburg, 
Ine insect was in the fourth nymphal instar and the characteristic 
ling of the stem was distinctly apparent on the plants. An emergency 
notice regarding the outbreak has been issued through the Bureau + 
formation, pending the publication of Mr, Wildermuth’s paper which 
1] appear in the Journal of Agricultural Research. 
Third generation of Heliophila 
unipuncta, Norfolk, V&. 
Dr. Henry Fox has located a local outbreak of the third generation 
Heliophila unipuncta near Norfolk, Va., and will carry on experiments 
determine its method of wintering over at that point. As yet none of 
e individuals colored artificially and liberated at the Hagerstown lab- 
atory have been returned by any correspondent of the Bureau. During 
Be past few days specimens of Apantesis sp. and Catocala sp. have been 
nt in by distant correspondents, showing that the results of the pub- 
icity given this experiment ere still being felt. 
James M. Langston has been transferred from Nashville, Tenn., to 
‘eenwood Miss., where he will assist Mr. Cc. F. Turner in charge of the 
boratory at that point.” 
W. HE. Pennington has been transferred from Wellington, Kans., to the 
agerstown, Md., laboratory to take the place vacated by C. M. Packard 
io is now at Wellington, Kans., assisting Mr. E. G. Kelly in the Hessian 
y investigations. 
®P. R. Myers who for several years was connected with the division of 
hsects at the U. S. National Museum haz received an appointment in 
is Bureau and has been detailed to assist Mr, W. R. McConnell at the 
agerstown, Md., station. 
a DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
A. L. Quaintance, In Charge. 
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Mr. J. D. Iuckett, assigned to work under the Insecticide and Fungi- 
de Board, at Vienna, Va., resigned September 5, in order to resume 
hool work at Purdue University. | 
Mr. A. L. Quaintance left Washington about the middle of September for 
trip through the Western States to confer with the men who are in ; 
arge of verious deciduous fruit insect field stations. En route he will 
sit the following stations: Worth East, Pa.; Benton Harbor, Mich.; Grand 
ion, Colo.; Walnut Creek, Cal., and Wenatchee, Wash. 
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