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ae SOUTHERN FIELD CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
W. D. Hunter, In Charge. 





































me A. C. Cameron, a@ research student of the British Board of Agricul- 
Who has done notable work on the entomology of the soil in England, 
C ‘ spent several months in New Jersey, visited Washington on Sep- 
2 
Mrs. T. BE. Holloway and G. N. Wolcott returned from Europe about 
Gdle of September. Mr. Holloway spent the entire month of August 
ris. He has returned to his station at New Orleans and Mr. Wolcott 
esumed his work on Lachnosterna parasites at Urbana, Illinois. 
H. CC. Bagerton, a collaborator working with the South Carolina 
ment Station, has been appointed assistant entomologist in the Es- 
sion Agronomica at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 
Dr. dg. R. Dickson, health officer of Trinidad, W. I., visited the Bu- 
1 on September 18. : 
. W. D. Pierce has spent the month of September in determining the 
@ of the cotton boil weevil in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. 
“W. Laake in company with Doctor Johnson, of the Bureau of Animal 
try, is investigating a serious outbreak of anthrax in western Texas 
hich transmission by horse flies seems to be indicated. 
) Vv. King has returned to New Orleans, La., where he will resume his 
Bein the medical department of Tulane 3 phate 
ir. A. W. Joblime Pomeroy has received the appointment as entomologist 
or the Department of Agriculture for Beuihern Nigeria. He will proceed 
) his post from Liverpool on November 25, 
Mr. H. P. Wood has been granted leuve of absence without pay for the 
Irpose of taking a course in Tropical Medicine at Harvard University. 
There is an unusual outbreak of “anh paesites argillacea in the Southern 
@s this season, and moths have appeared at lights in northern locali- 
— Notes are desired from as many northern localities as possible 
Pding the exact dates of the first appearances of these moths, the 
® of the maximum appearances and of the disappearance of the insect. 
fords of this kind have been kept for several years, and notes made 
ring the present season will be especially valuable. 
TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
C. L. Marlatt, In Charge. 
‘the invitation of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Mr. 
qv. Yothers gave an address before the Citrus Seminar held at the Uni- 
reity cf Florida, Gainesville, Fla., on September 22. 
fr. R. 8. Woglum, who is in charge of the investigation of citrus in- 
6 in California, reports that the mealy bug investigations are prog- 
ing ina satisfactory manner. The life history of Pseudococcus ecitri 
Br this season of the year has been determined, and preliminary Life 
ery Fore has been undertaken with a Chrysopid and Hemearobiid, pre- 
